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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... judge of 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 ...
... judge of 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 ...
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... judge of the drunken wit of the dialogue between Iago and Cassio , the most excellent in its kind , when we are quite sober ? Wit is wit , by whatever means it is produced ; and , if good , will appear so at all times . I admit that the ...
... judge of the drunken wit of the dialogue between Iago and Cassio , the most excellent in its kind , when we are quite sober ? Wit is wit , by whatever means it is produced ; and , if good , will appear so at all times . I admit that the ...
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... judge , not from recollection , which might be dim , but from immediate sensation . He shook his head , and said , " Poor stuff ! No , Sir , claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero ( smiling ) ...
... judge , not from recollection , which might be dim , but from immediate sensation . He shook his head , and said , " Poor stuff ! No , Sir , claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero ( smiling ) ...
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... judge for himself according to the effects which he experiences . One of the fathers tells us , he found fasting made him so peevish that he did not practise it . " Though he often enlarged upon the evil of in- toxication , he was by no ...
... judge for himself according to the effects which he experiences . One of the fathers tells us , he found fasting made him so peevish that he did not practise it . " Though he often enlarged upon the evil of in- toxication , he was by no ...
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... judge for himself , there is great danger that we too often , from partial motives , persuade ourselves that they exist ; and probably whatever extraordinary instances may sometimes occur , where some evil may be pre- vented by ...
... judge for himself , there is great danger that we too often , from partial motives , persuade ourselves that they exist ; and probably whatever extraordinary instances may sometimes occur , where some evil may be pre- vented by ...
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