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, Том 1C. Dilly, 1798 - 446 стор. |
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... pleasure , without interrupting the chain of an argument , or the circumftances of a nar- ration . Dr. JOHNSON's converfation poffeffed precisely that ex◅ cellence fo well defcribed by LORD VERULAM in a sentence almost immediately ...
... pleasure , without interrupting the chain of an argument , or the circumftances of a nar- ration . Dr. JOHNSON's converfation poffeffed precisely that ex◅ cellence fo well defcribed by LORD VERULAM in a sentence almost immediately ...
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... pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing , than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it * . " A writer of deferved eminence being men- tioned , Johnson faid , " Why , Sir , he is a man of good parts ...
... pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing , than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it * . " A writer of deferved eminence being men- tioned , Johnson faid , " Why , Sir , he is a man of good parts ...
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... having alfo obferved , that the real character of a man was found out by his amufe- ments , Johnson added , " Yes , Sir ; no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures . " Johnfon Johnson had a kind of general averfion to a pun CONVERSATION . 3L.
... having alfo obferved , that the real character of a man was found out by his amufe- ments , Johnson added , " Yes , Sir ; no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures . " Johnfon Johnson had a kind of general averfion to a pun CONVERSATION . 3L.
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... pleasures of wine . They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and fupper . A gentleman having to fome of the ufual arguments for drinking added this : " You 1 1 Ba Nard . D 3 Barnard , kno w know , Sir ...
... pleasures of wine . They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and fupper . A gentleman having to fome of the ufual arguments for drinking added this : " You 1 1 Ba Nard . D 3 Barnard , kno w know , Sir ...
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... pleasure : cock - fighting , or bear - baiting , will raise the spirits of a company , as drinking does , though furely they will not improve converfation . I alfo admit , that there are fome fluggish men who are improved by drinking ...
... pleasure : cock - fighting , or bear - baiting , will raise the spirits of a company , as drinking does , though furely they will not improve converfation . I alfo admit , that there are fome fluggish men who are improved by drinking ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.