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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... turned on the prevailing practice of going to the East Indies in quest of wealth . " A man ( said Johnson ) had better have ten thousand pounds at the end of ten years passed in England , than twenty thousand pounds at the end of ten ...
... turned on the prevailing practice of going to the East Indies in quest of wealth . " A man ( said Johnson ) had better have ten thousand pounds at the end of ten years passed in England , than twenty thousand pounds at the end of ten ...
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... turning their sight away from it better than others . " Johnson's own account of his views of futurity will appear truly rational ; and may , perhaps , impress the unthinking with seriousness : - " I never thought confidence with ...
... turning their sight away from it better than others . " Johnson's own account of his views of futurity will appear truly rational ; and may , perhaps , impress the unthinking with seriousness : - " I never thought confidence with ...
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... turned aside , and first set fire to St. James's palace . " The subject at another time turning on the belief in ghosts , Johnson said , " Sir , I make a dis- tinction between what a man may experience by the mere strength of his ...
... turned aside , and first set fire to St. James's palace . " The subject at another time turning on the belief in ghosts , Johnson said , " Sir , I make a dis- tinction between what a man may experience by the mere strength of his ...
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... asserted , that this inex- plicable calling was a thing very well known.- Dr. Johnson said , that one day at Oxford , as he was turning the key of his chamber , he heard his mother distinctly call Sam . She was then at Litchfield DEATH , ...
... asserted , that this inex- plicable calling was a thing very well known.- Dr. Johnson said , that one day at Oxford , as he was turning the key of his chamber , he heard his mother distinctly call Sam . She was then at Litchfield DEATH , ...
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... turned him- self in the bed , and said , - " God bless you , my dear ! " These were the last words he spoke . His difficulty of breathing increased till about seven o'clock in the evening , when Francis and Mrs. Desmoulins , who were ...
... turned him- self in the bed , and said , - " God bless you , my dear ! " These were the last words he spoke . His difficulty of breathing increased till about seven o'clock in the evening , when Francis and Mrs. Desmoulins , who were ...
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