Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh : for he shall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking , and himself shall continually gather knowledge . LONDON : Bacon's Essays . PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN ; LONGMAN , HURST ...
... questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh : for he shall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking , and himself shall continually gather knowledge . LONDON : Bacon's Essays . PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN ; LONGMAN , HURST ...
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... questions seriously momentous . Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment , or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn ' malignity . It is best not to be angry ; and best , in the next place , to be quickly ...
... questions seriously momentous . Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment , or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn ' malignity . It is best not to be angry ; and best , in the next place , to be quickly ...
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... question was once happily illustrated in opposi- tion to Hume by the Reverend Mr. Robert Brown , at Utrecht . " A small drinking glass and a large one ( said he ) may be equally full ; but the large one holds more than the small ...
... question was once happily illustrated in opposi- tion to Hume by the Reverend Mr. Robert Brown , at Utrecht . " A small drinking glass and a large one ( said he ) may be equally full ; but the large one holds more than the small ...
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... question he an- swered , in a passion , " No , Sir , let it alone . It matters not how a man dies , but how he lives . The act of dying is not of importance , it lasts so short a time . " He added ( with an earnest look ) , " A man ...
... question he an- swered , in a passion , " No , Sir , let it alone . It matters not how a man dies , but how he lives . The act of dying is not of importance , it lasts so short a time . " He added ( with an earnest look ) , " A man ...
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... question whether departed spirits are ever permitted to appear in this world , or in any way to operate upon human life . " He has ( says Mr. B. ) been ignorantly misre presented as weakly credulous upon that subject ; and , therefore ...
... question whether departed spirits are ever permitted to appear in this world , or in any way to operate upon human life . " He has ( says Mr. B. ) been ignorantly misre presented as weakly credulous upon that subject ; and , therefore ...
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