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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... human nature on various interesting topics are here arranged and digested in a manner which it is hoped will prove agreeable to a numerous class of readers ; those , namely , who seek for instruction from works which they may take up or ...
... human nature on various interesting topics are here arranged and digested in a manner which it is hoped will prove agreeable to a numerous class of readers ; those , namely , who seek for instruction from works which they may take up or ...
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... human life made him remark , " that there was nothing by which a man exasperated most people more , than by display- ing a superior ability or brilliancy in conversa- tion . They seem pleased at the time ; but their envy makes them ...
... human life made him remark , " that there was nothing by which a man exasperated most people more , than by display- ing a superior ability or brilliancy in conversa- tion . They seem pleased at the time ; but their envy makes them ...
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... human nature in general : if it be false , it is a picture of nothing . For instance : suppose a man should tell that Johnson , before setting out for Italy , as he had to cross the Alps , sat down to make himself wings . This many ...
... human nature in general : if it be false , it is a picture of nothing . For instance : suppose a man should tell that Johnson , before setting out for Italy , as he had to cross the Alps , sat down to make himself wings . This many ...
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... 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 , it had been suggested , that it might have a tendency to make the ...
... 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 , it had been suggested , that it might have a tendency to make the ...
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... human heart a 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 ...
... human heart a 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 ...
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