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, Volume 1C. Dilly, 1798 - 446 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... believe one balf of what he tells . " - " Aye , " said Johnson , " but we don't know whith half to believe . By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him , but all comfort in his conversation . " Speaking of converfation , he ...
... believe one balf of what he tells . " - " Aye , " said Johnson , " but we don't know whith half to believe . By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him , but all comfort in his conversation . " Speaking of converfation , he ...
Pagina 20
... believe ; but it would be a picture of nothing . ******* ( naming a worthy friend of ours ) used to think a story a ftory , till I fhewed him that truth was effential to it . " 66 Queftioning ( he once remarked ) is not the mode of ...
... believe ; but it would be a picture of nothing . ******* ( naming a worthy friend of ours ) used to think a story a ftory , till I fhewed him that truth was effential to it . " 66 Queftioning ( he once remarked ) is not the mode of ...
Pagina 51
... believe marriages would in ge- neral be as happy , and often more fo , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor upon a due confideration of characters and circum- ftances , without the parties having any choice in the matter . " E 2 ...
... believe marriages would in ge- neral be as happy , and often more fo , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor upon a due confideration of characters and circum- ftances , without the parties having any choice in the matter . " E 2 ...
Pagina 65
... believe it will be most for your advantage to apply your- felf wholly to the languages , till you go to the Univerfity . The Greek authors I think it beft for you to read are these : " Cebes . " Elian . " Lucian by Leeds . 66 Xenophon ...
... believe it will be most for your advantage to apply your- felf wholly to the languages , till you go to the Univerfity . The Greek authors I think it beft for you to read are these : " Cebes . " Elian . " Lucian by Leeds . 66 Xenophon ...
Pagina 81
... believe , that Nature has given him fomething peculiar to himself . This vanity makes one mind nurse averfions , and another actuate defires , till they rife by art much above their original state of power ; and as affectation , in time ...
... believe , that Nature has given him fomething peculiar to himself . This vanity makes one mind nurse averfions , and another actuate defires , till they rife by art much above their original state of power ; and as affectation , in time ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.