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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... life in the most serious and delicate conjunctures ; and those sound re- marks on works of genius and learning , which in a peculiar man- ner distinguished the beloved friend of Mr. BoSWELL . It may be proper to add , that this selection.
... life in the most serious and delicate conjunctures ; and those sound re- marks on works of genius and learning , which in a peculiar man- ner distinguished the beloved friend of Mr. BoSWELL . It may be proper to add , that this selection.
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... learning and talents might have very good intellectual society , without the aid of any little gratifications of the senses . Berrenger joined with Johnson , and said , that without these any meeting would be dull and insipid . He would ...
... learning and talents might have very good intellectual society , without the aid of any little gratifications of the senses . Berrenger joined with Johnson , and said , that without these any meeting would be dull and insipid . He would ...
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... learning ; but it never lies straight . There is never one idea by the side of another ; ' tis all entangled ; and then he drives it awkwardly upon conversation . " " People ( he remarked ) may be taken in once , who imagine that an ...
... learning ; but it never lies straight . There is never one idea by the side of another ; ' tis all entangled ; and then he drives it awkwardly upon conversation . " " People ( he remarked ) may be taken in once , who imagine that an ...
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... learning . " - J . " Why , Sir , that may be true in cases where learn- ing cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who were ...
... learning . " - J . " Why , Sir , that may be true in cases where learn- ing cannot possibly be of any use ; for instance , this boy rows us as well without learning , as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts , who were ...
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... learning to read and write is a distinction , the few who have that distinction may be the less in- clined to work ; but when every body learns to read and write , it is no longer a distinction . A man who has a laced waistcoat is too ...
... learning to read and write is a distinction , the few who have that distinction may be the less in- clined to work ; but when every body learns to read and write , it is no longer a distinction . A man who has a laced waistcoat is too ...
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