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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... remarked , was a happy gift of nature . - JOHNSON . " I do not think so ; a man has from nature a certain portion of mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind I do not ...
... remarked , was a happy gift of nature . - JOHNSON . " I do not think so ; a man has from nature a certain portion of mind ; the use he makes of it depends upon his own free will . That a man has always the same firmness of mind I do not ...
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... remark- ing , that " Every man is to take existence on the terms on which it is given to him . To some men it is given on condition of not taking liberties which other men may take without much harm , One may drink wine , and be nothing ...
... remark- ing , that " Every man is to take existence on the terms on which it is given to him . To some men it is given on condition of not taking liberties which other men may take without much harm , One may drink wine , and be nothing ...
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... remarks : " I was struck with the justice of this observation . To be with those of whom a person , whose mind is wavering and dejected , stands in awe , represses and com . poses an uneasy tumult of spirits , and consoles him with the ...
... remarks : " I was struck with the justice of this observation . To be with those of whom a person , whose mind is wavering and dejected , stands in awe , represses and com . poses an uneasy tumult of spirits , and consoles him with the ...
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... remark made by General Paoli : - " That it is impossible not to be afraid of death ; and that those who at the time of dying are not afraid , are not thinking of death , but of applause , or something else , which keeps death out of ...
... remark made by General Paoli : - " That it is impossible not to be afraid of death ; and that those who at the time of dying are not afraid , are not thinking of death , but of applause , or something else , which keeps death out of ...
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... remark on Di- vines trying to give the tree a jerk upon a death- bed , to make it lie favourably , is not well- founded . In While Johnson and Mr. Boswell stood in calm conference by themselves in a garden , at a pret- ty late hour ...
... remark on Di- vines trying to give the tree a jerk upon a death- bed , to make it lie favourably , is not well- founded . In While Johnson and Mr. Boswell stood in calm conference by themselves in a garden , at a pret- ty late hour ...
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