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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... thought he was giving additional force to what he uttered , by expressive movements of his hands , Johnson fairly seized them , and held them down . He also disapproved of introducing scripture phrases into secular discourse . VOL . I ...
... thought he was giving additional force to what he uttered , by expressive movements of his hands , Johnson fairly seized them , and held them down . He also disapproved of introducing scripture phrases into secular discourse . VOL . I ...
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... thought it right to tell one man of a hand- some thing which had been said of him by another , as tending to increase benevolence , Johnson an- swered , " Undoubtedly it is right , Sir . " He thus defined the difference between physi ...
... thought it right to tell one man of a hand- some thing which had been said of him by another , as tending to increase benevolence , Johnson an- swered , " Undoubtedly it is right , Sir . " He thus defined the difference between physi ...
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... but it is very uncivil . " Dr. Taylor ( who was present ) thought him in the wrong , and spoke to him privately of it ; yet ( says Mr. B. ) I afterwards acknowledged to Johnson " 6 that I was to blame ; for I candidly owned 6 TABLE TALK :
... but it is very uncivil . " Dr. Taylor ( who was present ) thought him in the wrong , and spoke to him privately of it ; yet ( says Mr. B. ) I afterwards acknowledged to Johnson " 6 that I was to blame ; for I candidly owned 6 TABLE TALK :
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... thought he was within hearing . ” " Never ( said he ) speak of a man in his own presence . It is always indelicate , and may be offensive . " Johnson could not brook appearing to be worsted in argument , even when , to show the force ...
... thought he was within hearing . ” " Never ( said he ) speak of a man in his own presence . It is always indelicate , and may be offensive . " Johnson could not brook appearing to be worsted in argument , even when , to show the force ...
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... thought I had been uttering in my own character . " Of a certain player he remarked , that his con- versation usually threatened and announced more than it performed ; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope , to end in a ...
... thought I had been uttering in my own character . " Of a certain player he remarked , that his con- versation usually threatened and announced more than it performed ; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope , to end in a ...
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