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, Volumen1J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... better lie down softly of his own accord . Johnson used also to say , that if a man talked of his misfortunes , we might depend upon it there was something in them not disagreeable to him- for where there was nothing but pure misery ...
... better lie down softly of his own accord . Johnson used also to say , that if a man talked of his misfortunes , we might depend upon it there was something in them not disagreeable to him- for where there was nothing but pure misery ...
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... better of him . " Now ( said he ) one may mark here the effect of sleep in weaken- ing the power of reflection ; for had not my judgment failed me , I should have seen , that the wit of this supposed antagonist , by whose supe- riority ...
... better of him . " Now ( said he ) one may mark here the effect of sleep in weaken- ing the power of reflection ; for had not my judgment failed me , I should have seen , that the wit of this supposed antagonist , by whose supe- riority ...
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... better , it is a very little addition to a man of his literary reputation ; if he does not get the better , he is miserably vexed . The mis- fortune of Goldsmith in conversation is this : he goes on without knowing how he is to get off ...
... better , it is a very little addition to a man of his literary reputation ; if he does not get the better , he is miserably vexed . The mis- fortune of Goldsmith in conversation is this : he goes on without knowing how he is to get off ...
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... better had there been more company there . ' ་ B. " Might not Mrs. Montagu have been a fourth ? " - J . " Sir , Mrs. Montagu does not make a trade of her wit ; but Mrs. Montagu is a very extraordinary woman , she has a constant stream ...
... better had there been more company there . ' ་ B. " Might not Mrs. Montagu have been a fourth ? " - J . " Sir , Mrs. Montagu does not make a trade of her wit ; but Mrs. Montagu is a very extraordinary woman , she has a constant stream ...
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... adversary's arguments , and putting better in their place . " - Wilkes . " But this does not move the passions . " - JOHNSON . " He must be a weak man who is to be so moved . ” — WILKES ( naming a celebrated orator 22 TABLE TALK :
... adversary's arguments , and putting better in their place . " - Wilkes . " But this does not move the passions . " - JOHNSON . " He must be a weak man who is to be so moved . ” — WILKES ( naming a celebrated orator 22 TABLE TALK :
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