The table talk of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 128 страници |
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... reasons very wittily , but not convincingly . Now , take the instance of building ; the mason's wife , if she is ever seen in liquor , is ruined ; the mason may get himself drunk as often as he pleases with little loss of character ...
... reasons very wittily , but not convincingly . Now , take the instance of building ; the mason's wife , if she is ever seen in liquor , is ruined ; the mason may get himself drunk as often as he pleases with little loss of character ...
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... REASON . Sir , you are giving a reason for it ; but that will not make it right . You may have a reason why two and two should make five ; but they will still make but four . ADVERSE CRITICISM BETTER THAN NONE . I would rather be ...
... REASON . Sir , you are giving a reason for it ; but that will not make it right . You may have a reason why two and two should make five ; but they will still make but four . ADVERSE CRITICISM BETTER THAN NONE . I would rather be ...
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Samuel Johnson. terbalanced by evil . A man may have a strong reason not to drink wine , and that may be greater than the pleasure . Wine makes a man better pleased with himself . I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others ...
Samuel Johnson. terbalanced by evil . A man may have a strong reason not to drink wine , and that may be greater than the pleasure . Wine makes a man better pleased with himself . I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others ...
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... reasons for reading romances- as , the fertility of invention , the beauty of style and expression , the curiosity of seeing with what kind of performances the age and country in which they were written was de- lighted ; for it is to be ...
... reasons for reading romances- as , the fertility of invention , the beauty of style and expression , the curiosity of seeing with what kind of performances the age and country in which they were written was de- lighted ; for it is to be ...
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... reason ; heretofore the poorer people were more numerous , and from want of commerce , their means of getting a livelihood more difficult therefore , the sup- porting them was an act of great benevolence . Now that the poor can find ...
... reason ; heretofore the poorer people were more numerous , and from want of commerce , their means of getting a livelihood more difficult therefore , the sup- porting them was an act of great benevolence . Now that the poor can find ...
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Страница 102 - All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle...
Страница 31 - 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.
Страница 105 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Страница 56 - What he attempted, he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Страница 75 - Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the Crown ? The Crown has not power enough. When I say that all governments are alike, I consider that in no government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut off his head. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
Страница 46 - Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.
Страница 13 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Страница 60 - The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Страница 39 - There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say,
Страница 34 - I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning ; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention ; because you have done a great deal, when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.