Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Tom 1C. Dilly, 1798 - 446 |
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... subject is to be gathered from a hundred people : The parts of a truth which a man gets thus are at such a distance from each other , that he never attains to a full view . " His acute observation of human life made him remark , " that ...
... subject is to be gathered from a hundred people : The parts of a truth which a man gets thus are at such a distance from each other , that he never attains to a full view . " His acute observation of human life made him remark , " that ...
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... subject of the fermon preached to us by Dr. Burrows , the rector of St. Clement Danes , was , the certainty that at the last day we must give an account of " the deeds done in the body ; " and , amongst various acts of culpability , he ...
... subject of the fermon preached to us by Dr. Burrows , the rector of St. Clement Danes , was , the certainty that at the last day we must give an account of " the deeds done in the body ; " and , amongst various acts of culpability , he ...
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... subject upon which he knows two people in the company differ . " -B . But he told me , Sir , he does it for instruction . " - 7 . motive be , Sir , the man who does so does very wrong . He has no more right to in- struct himself at such ...
... subject upon which he knows two people in the company differ . " -B . But he told me , Sir , he does it for instruction . " - 7 . motive be , Sir , the man who does so does very wrong . He has no more right to in- struct himself at such ...
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... subject , ( fays his Biographer ) for it has pleased God to make man a composite animal ; and where there is nothing to refresh the body , themind will languish . " C by by chance at the fame time with Burke under a CONVERSATION . 17.
... subject , ( fays his Biographer ) for it has pleased God to make man a composite animal ; and where there is nothing to refresh the body , themind will languish . " C by by chance at the fame time with Burke under a CONVERSATION . 17.
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... subject : " A man who has been drinking wine at all freely should never go into a new company . With those who have partaken of wine with him , he may be pretty well in unison ; but he will probably be offensive , or appear ridiculous ...
... subject : " A man who has been drinking wine at all freely should never go into a new company . With those who have partaken of wine with him , he may be pretty well in unison ; but he will probably be offensive , or appear ridiculous ...
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Strona 153 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Strona 274 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations; a practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Strona 149 - When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil.
Strona 14 - Goldsmith should not be for ever attempting to shine in conversation : he has not temper for it, he is so much mortified when he fails. Sir, a game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance ; a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his wit. Now Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one, who cannot spare the hundred.
Strona 153 - But, sir, that is not enough. An argument which does not convince yourself may convince the judge to whom you urge it; and if it does convince him, why then, sir, you are wrong and he is right. It is his business to judge ; and you are not to be confident in your own opinion that a cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the judge's opinion.
Strona 432 - there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and there is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson. Characters of manners are very entertaining; but they are to be understood by a more superficial observer than characters of nature, where a man must dive into the recesses of the human heart.
Strona 427 - I met him (said he) at Lord Clare's house in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.
Strona 264 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life ', nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Strona 65 - Why, Sir, that may be true in cases where learning 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 the first sailors." He then called to the boy, "What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" "Sir," said the boy, "I would give what I have.
Strona 406 - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his letters, an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another. This transgression of regularity was by himself and his admirers termed greatness of soul.