Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson, Volume 11807 |
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Pagina 6
... ; but it is very uncivil . " Dr. Taylor ( who was present ) thought him in the wrong , and spoke to him privately of it ; " yet ( says Mr. B. ) I afterwards acknowledged to Johnson that I was to blame ; for I candidly owned 6 TABLE TALK :
... ; but it is very uncivil . " Dr. Taylor ( who was present ) thought him in the wrong , and spoke to him privately of it ; " yet ( says Mr. B. ) I afterwards acknowledged to Johnson that I was to blame ; for I candidly owned 6 TABLE TALK :
Pagina 7
... wrong . He has no more right to instruct himself at such risk , than he has to make two people fight a duel , that he may learn how to defend himself . " Mr. B. ventured to mention a ludicrous para- graph in the news - papers , that Dr ...
... wrong . He has no more right to instruct himself at such risk , than he has to make two people fight a duel , that he may learn how to defend himself . " Mr. B. ventured to mention a ludicrous para- graph in the news - papers , that Dr ...
Pagina 9
... wrong side , and in short both kept the field . Next morning , when they met in the breakfast- ing - room , Dr. J. with great candour , accosted Mr. Morgan thus : " Sir , I have been thinking on our dispute last night - You were in the ...
... wrong side , and in short both kept the field . Next morning , when they met in the breakfast- ing - room , Dr. J. with great candour , accosted Mr. Morgan thus : " Sir , I have been thinking on our dispute last night - You were in the ...
Pagina 10
... wrong side . When , therefore , he perceived that his opponent gained ground , he had recourse to some sudden mode of robust sophistry . Once when Mr. B. was pressing upon him with visible advantage , he stopped him thus : " My dear B ...
... wrong side . When , therefore , he perceived that his opponent gained ground , he had recourse to some sudden mode of robust sophistry . Once when Mr. B. was pressing upon him with visible advantage , he stopped him thus : " My dear B ...
Pagina 19
... wrong to question a man concerning himself . There may be parts of his former life which he may not wish to be made known to other persons , or even brought to his own recollection . " Mr. Langton having repeated the anecdote of Addison ...
... wrong to question a man concerning himself . There may be parts of his former life which he may not wish to be made known to other persons , or even brought to his own recollection . " Mr. Langton having repeated the anecdote of Addison ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 174 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Pagina 95 - I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others, as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON. "Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling.
Pagina 35 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Pagina 93 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Pagina 204 - Sir, the only method by which religious truth can be established is by martyrdom. The magistrate has a right to enforce what he thinks, and he who is conscious of the truth has a right to suffer. I am afraid there is no other way of ascertaining the truth but by persecution on the one hand and enduring it on the other.
Pagina 66 - I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss (') was an instance of early cultivation,...
Pagina 21 - You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention.
Pagina 19 - The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either of an individual or of human nature in general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing.
Pagina 123 - Consider, Sir ; celebrated men, such as you have mentioned, have had their applause at a distance ; but Garrick had it dashed in his face, sounded in his ears, and went home every night with, the plaudits of a thousand in his cranium. Then, Sir, Garrick did not find, but made his way to the tables, the levees, and almost the bed-chambers of the great. Then, Sir, Garrick had under him a numerous body of people ; who, from fear of his power, and hopes of his favour, and admiration of his talents, were...
Pagina 146 - 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, shew it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place'.