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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... things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible . " - Yet he said it was not necessary to mention such trifles as that meat was too much or too little done , or that the wea- VOL . II . B ...
... things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible . " - Yet he said it was not necessary to mention such trifles as that meat was too much or too little done , or that the wea- VOL . II . B ...
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... thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately while the ... things that please us 2 1 TABLE TALK :
... thing that you remember , for you cannot judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately while the ... things that please us 2 1 TABLE TALK :
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... things that please us , and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased , When I came to Litchfield ( said he to Mr. Bos- well ) , I found my old friend Harry Jackson dead , It was a loss , and a loss not to be repaired , as he was ...
... things that please us , and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased , When I came to Litchfield ( said he to Mr. Bos- well ) , I found my old friend Harry Jackson dead , It was a loss , and a loss not to be repaired , as he was ...
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... thing that he did not despise . " - BISHOP OF ST . ASAPH . ' " He was , like other chaplains , looking for vacancies ... things at their true value . ” — I still insisted ( says Mr. Bos- well ) that admiration was more pleasing than ...
... thing that he did not despise . " - BISHOP OF ST . ASAPH . ' " He was , like other chaplains , looking for vacancies ... things at their true value . ” — I still insisted ( says Mr. Bos- well ) that admiration was more pleasing than ...
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... of the philosophical wise man , that is , to have no want of any thing . " Then , Sir ( said Mr. Bos- well ) , the savage is a wise man . " - " Sir ( replied " Sir Johnson ) , I do not mean simply being without- LIFE . 5.
... of the philosophical wise man , that is , to have no want of any thing . " Then , Sir ( said Mr. Bos- well ) , the savage is a wise man . " - " Sir ( replied " Sir Johnson ) , I do not mean simply being without- LIFE . 5.
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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