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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... desire of distinction , but because his mind is full . " - After musing for some time one day , Johnson said , " I wonder how I should have any enemies ; for I do harm to nobody . " - BoSWELL . " In the first place , Sir , you will be ...
... desire of distinction , but because his mind is full . " - After musing for some time one day , Johnson said , " I wonder how I should have any enemies ; for I do harm to nobody . " - BoSWELL . " In the first place , Sir , you will be ...
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... desire to see a contest between Mrs. Macaulay and him ; but then I knew how the contest would end ; so that I was to see him triumph . " - JOHNSON . " Sir , you cannot be sure how a contest will end ; and no man has a right to engage ...
... desire to see a contest between Mrs. Macaulay and him ; but then I knew how the contest would end ; so that I was to see him triumph . " - JOHNSON . " Sir , you cannot be sure how a contest will end ; and no man has a right to engage ...
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... desire but to inform and illustrate . " One of his principal talents ( says an eminent friend of his ) was shown in maintaining the wrong side of an argument , and in a splendid perversion of the truth . If you could contrive to have ...
... desire but to inform and illustrate . " One of his principal talents ( says an eminent friend of his ) was shown in maintaining the wrong side of an argument , and in a splendid perversion of the truth . If you could contrive to have ...
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... desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind ; and every human being , whose mind is not debauched , will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge , " To Mr. Langton when about to establish a school upon his estate ...
... desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind ; and every human being , whose mind is not debauched , will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge , " To Mr. Langton when about to establish a school upon his estate ...
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... desire of distinction , which inclines every man first to hope , and then to believe , that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself . This vanity makes one mind nurse aversions , and an- other actuate desires , till they rise ...
... desire of distinction , which inclines every man first to hope , and then to believe , that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself . This vanity makes one mind nurse aversions , and an- other actuate desires , till they rise ...
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