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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... live , yet this sense will have a different colour- ing ; and colouring is of much effect in every thing else as well as in painting . " 2 Mr. Berrenger visited Johnson one day , and they talked of an evening society for conversation at ...
... live , yet this sense will have a different colour- ing ; and colouring is of much effect in every thing else as well as in painting . " 2 Mr. Berrenger visited Johnson one day , and they talked of an evening society for conversation at ...
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... live in a state of marriage , that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection , and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation , are hardly sufficient to keep them together . " The ...
... live in a state of marriage , that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection , and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation , are hardly sufficient to keep them together . " The ...
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... live on land . " — " Then ( said Mr. B. ) it would be cruel in a father to breed " It would be his son to the sea . " - JOHNSON . cruel in a father who thinks as I do . Men go to sea before they know the unhappiness of that way of life ...
... live on land . " — " Then ( said Mr. B. ) it would be cruel in a father to breed " It would be his son to the sea . " - JOHNSON . cruel in a father who thinks as I do . Men go to sea before they know the unhappiness of that way of life ...
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... live without houses , how we pile brick upon brick , and rafter upon rafter , and that after a house is raised to a certain height , a man tumbles off a scaffold , and breaks his neck , he would laugh heartily at our folly in building ...
... live without houses , how we pile brick upon brick , and rafter upon rafter , and that after a house is raised to a certain height , a man tumbles off a scaffold , and breaks his neck , he would laugh heartily at our folly in building ...
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... lives by learning is regarded ; and how implicitly , where the inhabit- ants are not very rich , a rich man is hearkened to and followed . In a place like Campbell - town it is easy for one of the principal inhabitants to make a party ...
... lives by learning is regarded ; and how implicitly , where the inhabit- ants are not very rich , a rich man is hearkened to and followed . In a place like Campbell - town it is easy for one of the principal inhabitants to make a party ...
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allow argument asked better Boswell character Colley Cibber consider conversation daugh degree Demosthenes dine dinner drinking wine drunk effect Eutropius evil fortune Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happiness hear House of Commons Hudibras idle instance Johnson observed judge keep labour lady Langton laugh learning liberty live London Lord Lord Chatham Lord Mansfield Madam magistrate man's mankind marriage marry mentioned merit mind never occasion once opinion Parliament perhaps person pleased pleasure poor pounds praise pretty woman principles produce rank reason remark respect Scotland shewed Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir said Johnson society speak spend superiority suppose sure talk tavern teach tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies truth virtue wall of China Whig wife wise wish woman worth wrong