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, Volume 2J. Mawman, 1807 |
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Pagina 40
... Divinity ; and that many a man was a Quaker without knowing it . A Quaker having objected to the " observance of days , and months , and years , " Johnson an- swered , " The Church does not superstitiously observe days , merely as days ...
... Divinity ; and that many a man was a Quaker without knowing it . A Quaker having objected to the " observance of days , and months , and years , " Johnson an- swered , " The Church does not superstitiously observe days , merely as days ...
Pagina 50
... Divinity , either speculative or prac 7. " To instruct my family . 8. " To wear off by meditation any worldly soil contracted in the week . " From another of his Journals was transcribed what follows : f e I y ng he If b Dus tur 50 ...
... Divinity , either speculative or prac 7. " To instruct my family . 8. " To wear off by meditation any worldly soil contracted in the week . " From another of his Journals was transcribed what follows : f e I y ng he If b Dus tur 50 ...
Pagina 55
... Divinity itself , to pacify the demands of venge- ance , by a painful death ; of which the natural effect will be , that when justice is appeased , there is a proper place for the exercise of mercy ; and that such propitiation shall ...
... Divinity itself , to pacify the demands of venge- ance , by a painful death ; of which the natural effect will be , that when justice is appeased , there is a proper place for the exercise of mercy ; and that such propitiation shall ...
Pagina 72
... Divinity , however irreconcilable in its full extent with the grand system of mo- ral government . His supposed orthodoxy here cramped the vigorous powers of his understand- ing . He was confined by a chain which early imagination and ...
... Divinity , however irreconcilable in its full extent with the grand system of mo- ral government . His supposed orthodoxy here cramped the vigorous powers of his understand- ing . He was confined by a chain which early imagination and ...
Pagina 149
... divinity of the Christian system . Being asked what works of Richard Baxter's a person should read , he said , " Any of them ; they ` are all good . " Johnson praised John Bunyan highly . " His ' Pilgrim's Progress ' has great merit ...
... divinity of the Christian system . Being asked what works of Richard Baxter's a person should read , he said , " Any of them ; they ` are all good . " Johnson praised John Bunyan highly . " His ' Pilgrim's Progress ' has great merit ...
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