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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... than life will afford . You may often find yourself out of humour , and you may often think your wife not studious enough to please you ; and yet you may have reason to consider yourself as upon the whole . very MARRIAGE . " 45 Marriage,
... than life will afford . You may often find yourself out of humour , and you may often think your wife not studious enough to please you ; and yet you may have reason to consider yourself as upon the whole . very MARRIAGE . " 45 Marriage,
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... wife in a civilized state . - 7 . " Sir , they would have dissentions enough , though of another kind . One would choose to go a hunting in this wood , the other in that ; one would choose to go a fishing in this lake , the other in ...
... wife in a civilized state . - 7 . " Sir , they would have dissentions enough , though of another kind . One would choose to go a hunting in this wood , the other in that ; one would choose to go a fishing in this lake , the other in ...
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... wife , he said , " Not at all . On the contrary , were he not to marry again , it might be con- cluded that his first wife had given him a disgust to marriage ; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first ...
... wife , he said , " Not at all . On the contrary , were he not to marry again , it might be con- cluded that his first wife had given him a disgust to marriage ; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first ...
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... wife is drest as well as other people ; and a wife is pleased that she is drest . ” Talking of a young gentleman's marriage with an eminent singer , and his determination that she should no longer sing in public , though his father was ...
... wife is drest as well as other people ; and a wife is pleased that she is drest . ” Talking of a young gentleman's marriage with an eminent singer , and his determination that she should no longer sing in public , though his father was ...
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... wife sing- ing publickly for hire ? No , Sir , there can be no doubt here . I know not if I should not prepare myself for a public singer , as readily as let my wife be one . " A young lady who had married a man much her inferior in ...
... wife sing- ing publickly for hire ? No , Sir , there can be no doubt here . I know not if I should not prepare myself for a public singer , as readily as let my wife be one . " A young lady who had married a man much her inferior in ...
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