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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... employed , you may see your friends as much as you do now . You may dine at a club every day , and sup with one of the members every night ; and you may be as much at public places as one who has seen them all would wish to be . But you ...
... employed , you may see your friends as much as you do now . You may dine at a club every day , and sup with one of the members every night ; and you may be as much at public places as one who has seen them all would wish to be . But you ...
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... employed in his profes- sion , " I suggested ( says Mr. B. ) a doubt of the justice of the general opinion , that it is improper in a lawyer to solicit employment ; for why , I urged , should it not be equally allowable to solicit that ...
... employed in his profes- sion , " I suggested ( says Mr. B. ) a doubt of the justice of the general opinion , that it is improper in a lawyer to solicit employment ; for why , I urged , should it not be equally allowable to solicit that ...
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... employed in hospitality , he answered , “ You are to consider , that ancient hospitality , of which we hear so much , was in an uncommercial coun- try , when men being idle were glad to be enter- tained at rich men's tables ; but in a ...
... employed in hospitality , he answered , “ You are to consider , that ancient hospitality , of which we hear so much , was in an uncommercial coun- try , when men being idle were glad to be enter- tained at rich men's tables ; but in a ...
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... employ his riches to ad- vantage in educating young men of merit ? " — JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , if they fall in your way ; but if it be understood that you patronize young men of merit , you will be harassed with solicita- tions . You ...
... employ his riches to ad- vantage in educating young men of merit ? " — JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , if they fall in your way ; but if it be understood that you patronize young men of merit , you will be harassed with solicita- tions . You ...
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... call him an unsocial man , an unprofitable man . Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good . Trade gives employ- VOL . I. I ment to numbers , and so produces intermediate good . MANNERS . 113.
... call him an unsocial man , an unprofitable man . Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good . Trade gives employ- VOL . I. I ment to numbers , and so produces intermediate good . MANNERS . 113.
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