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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... reasons , requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us . " If therefore the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniencies , console yourself by reflecting that no profession is with- out them ; and ...
... reasons , requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us . " If therefore the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniencies , console yourself by reflecting that no profession is with- out them ; and ...
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... reason to believe that , my Lord . Are we tó think Pope was happy , because he says so in his writings ? We see in his writings what he wished the state of his mind to appear . Dr. Young , who pined for preferment , talks with contempt ...
... reason to believe that , my Lord . Are we tó think Pope was happy , because he says so in his writings ? We see in his writings what he wished the state of his mind to appear . Dr. Young , who pined for preferment , talks with contempt ...
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... reason to com- plain , though no more of it should be given to us . But if our only state of existence were in this world , then we might with some reason com- plain that we are so dissatisfied with our enjoy- ments compared with our ...
... reason to com- plain , though no more of it should be given to us . But if our only state of existence were in this world , then we might with some reason com- plain that we are so dissatisfied with our enjoy- ments compared with our ...
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... reason to be sure that we shall then be no longer liable to offend against GOD . We do not know that even the angels are quite in a state of security ; nay , we know that some of them have fallen . It may , therefore , perhaps be ...
... reason to be sure that we shall then be no longer liable to offend against GOD . We do not know that even the angels are quite in a state of security ; nay , we know that some of them have fallen . It may , therefore , perhaps be ...
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... reason- able income ; but as the church revenues were sadly diminished at the Reformation , the clergy who have livings cannot afford , in many in- stances , to give good salaries to curates , without leaving themselves too little ; and ...
... reason- able income ; but as the church revenues were sadly diminished at the Reformation , the clergy who have livings cannot afford , in many in- stances , to give good salaries to curates , without leaving themselves too little ; and ...
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