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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... virtue . " " Demosthenes Taylor , as he was called ( that is , the Editor of Demosthenes ) , " said Johnson , 66 was the most silent man , the merest statue of a man that I have ever seen . I once dined in com- pany with him , and all ...
... virtue . " " Demosthenes Taylor , as he was called ( that is , the Editor of Demosthenes ) , " said Johnson , 66 was the most silent man , the merest statue of a man that I have ever seen . I once dined in com- pany with him , and all ...
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... virtue , which are all included in chastity . " " I mentioned to him ( says Mr. Boswell ) a dis- pute between a friend of mine and his lady , con- cerning conjugal infidelity , which my friend had maintained was by no means so bad in ...
... virtue , which are all included in chastity . " " I mentioned to him ( says Mr. Boswell ) a dis- pute between a friend of mine and his lady , con- cerning conjugal infidelity , which my friend had maintained was by no means so bad in ...
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... virtue ; he then wished to return to his studies ; and finding long habits of idleness and pleasure harder to be cured than he expected , still willing to retain his claim to some extraordinary prerogatives , resolved the common ...
... virtue ; he then wished to return to his studies ; and finding long habits of idleness and pleasure harder to be cured than he expected , still willing to retain his claim to some extraordinary prerogatives , resolved the common ...
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... virtue of a great Whig nobleman . ” The conflict of opposite principles he described as " The contention between pleasure and virtue , a struggle which will always be continued while the present system of nature shall subsist : nor can ...
... virtue of a great Whig nobleman . ” The conflict of opposite principles he described as " The contention between pleasure and virtue , a struggle which will always be continued while the present system of nature shall subsist : nor can ...
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... , and gay in company at a tavern in the evening . Every man is to take care of his own wisdom and his own virtue , without minding too much what others think . " Talking of the great consequence which a man acquired by 88 TABLE TALK :
... , and gay in company at a tavern in the evening . Every man is to take care of his own wisdom and his own virtue , without minding too much what others think . " Talking of the great consequence which a man acquired by 88 TABLE TALK :
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