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, Volumen2 |
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J . “ Sir , you need not wonder at this , when you consider how large a proportion
of almost every man's life is passed without thinking of it . I myself was for some
years totally regardless of religion ; it had dropped out of my mind . It was at an ...
J . “ Sir , you need not wonder at this , when you consider how large a proportion
of almost every man's life is passed without thinking of it . I myself was for some
years totally regardless of religion ; it had dropped out of my mind . It was at an ...
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I think their giving the sacrament only in one kind is criminal , because it is
contrary to the express institution of Christ , and I wonder how the Council of
Trent admitted it . ” - B . “ Confession ? " J . “ Why , I don't know but that is a good
thing .
I think their giving the sacrament only in one kind is criminal , because it is
contrary to the express institution of Christ , and I wonder how the Council of
Trent admitted it . ” - B . “ Confession ? " J . “ Why , I don't know but that is a good
thing .
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A gentleman expressing his wonder why the author of so excellent a book as The
Whole Duty of Man ? should conceal himself , Johnson said , “ s . There may be
different reasons assigned for this , one of which would be very sufficient .
A gentleman expressing his wonder why the author of so excellent a book as The
Whole Duty of Man ? should conceal himself , Johnson said , “ s . There may be
different reasons assigned for this , one of which would be very sufficient .
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... Would all but stoop to what they understand . ” can -B . “ And his plays are
good . " - J . “ Yes ; but that was his trade ; l'esprit du corps ; he had been all his
life among players and play - writers . I wonder that he had so little to say in
conversaa ...
... Would all but stoop to what they understand . ” can -B . “ And his plays are
good . " - J . “ Yes ; but that was his trade ; l'esprit du corps ; he had been all his
life among players and play - writers . I wonder that he had so little to say in
conversaa ...
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He said one evening , “ I met David coming off the stage , drest in a woman's
riding - hood , when he acted in " The Wonder ; ' I came full upon him , and I
believe he was not pleased . ” Sir Joshua Reynolds observed with great truth ,
that ...
He said one evening , “ I met David coming off the stage , drest in a woman's
riding - hood , when he acted in " The Wonder ; ' I came full upon him , and I
believe he was not pleased . ” Sir Joshua Reynolds observed with great truth ,
that ...
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