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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... true value . ” — I still insisted ( says Mr. Bos- well ) that admiration was more pleasing than judgment , as love is more pleasing than friend- ship . The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast - beef ...
... true value . ” — I still insisted ( says Mr. Bos- well ) that admiration was more pleasing than judgment , as love is more pleasing than friend- ship . The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast - beef ...
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... true . " Mr. Boswell tells us , that he once teased John- son with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness . A moth having fluttered round the candle , and burnt itself , the Doctor laid hold of this little in- cident to admonish him ...
... true . " Mr. Boswell tells us , that he once teased John- son with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness . A moth having fluttered round the candle , and burnt itself , the Doctor laid hold of this little in- cident to admonish him ...
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... true . A peasant and a philosopher may be equally sa- tisfied , but not equally happy . Happiness con- sists in the multiplicity of agreeable conscious- A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher . " This ...
... true . A peasant and a philosopher may be equally sa- tisfied , but not equally happy . Happiness con- sists in the multiplicity of agreeable conscious- A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher . " This ...
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... true , that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while . Life is a progress from want to want , not from enjoyment to enjoyment . " At another time he maintained , that a boy at school is the happiest ...
... true , that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while . Life is a progress from want to want , not from enjoyment to enjoyment . " At another time he maintained , that a boy at school is the happiest ...
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... die . " - J . " It is not true , Sir . Hold a pistol to Foote's breast , or to Hume's breast , and threaten to kill them , and you'll see how they behave . " . B. " But may we not fortify our minds for 18 TABLE TALK :
... die . " - J . " It is not true , Sir . Hold a pistol to Foote's breast , or to Hume's breast , and threaten to kill them , and you'll see how they behave . " . B. " But may we not fortify our minds for 18 TABLE TALK :
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admiration afraid allow ancient appeared asked Beauclerk Beggar's Opera believe better Bishop blank verse Burke Cawston character Christian Church Church of England Church of Scotland Cibber clergyman consider conversation death Divinity eminent English expressed fear Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness History of China hope human Hume humour imagination infidel John Johnson observed language learning literary lived Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Camden Madam maintained mankind manner ment merit mind miracles nature neral never objections occasion once opinion passion perhaps philosophers pleased poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise punishment racter religion Scotland Scripture sermons Shakspeare shew Shiels Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir said Johnson style suppose sure talked tell Theocritus thing Thirty-nine Articles thought tion told translation true truth uneasy verse Virgil wish wonder write written wrote