The table talk of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 128 страници |
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... things , ever so much grandeur , ever so much elegance , ever so much desire that everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be there there must always be some degree of care and anxiety . The master of the house is ...
... things , ever so much grandeur , ever so much elegance , ever so much desire that everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be there there must always be some degree of care and anxiety . The master of the house is ...
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... things . There is no solid meat in it ; there is a want of senti- ment in it . Not but that he has sentiment sometimes , and sentiment too very powerful and very pleasing : but it has not its full pro- portion in his conversation . THE ...
... things . There is no solid meat in it ; there is a want of senti- ment in it . Not but that he has sentiment sometimes , and sentiment too very powerful and very pleasing : but it has not its full pro- portion in his conversation . THE ...
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... thing else ; or sometimes the vacuity closes up of itself . THE MORAL OF " OTHELLO . " In the first place , sir , we learn from Othello this very useful moral , not to make an unequal match : in the second place , we learn not to yield ...
... thing else ; or sometimes the vacuity closes up of itself . THE MORAL OF " OTHELLO . " In the first place , sir , we learn from Othello this very useful moral , not to make an unequal match : in the second place , we learn not to yield ...
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... thing , but the skill in forming it , which is so highly estimated . Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers , that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do , is valuable . The first man who balanced a straw upon ...
... thing , but the skill in forming it , which is so highly estimated . Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers , that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do , is valuable . The first man who balanced a straw upon ...
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... thing happened at one window , and they , when relating it , say that it happened at another , do not let it pass , but instantly check them ; you do not know where deviation from truth will end . It is more from carelessness about ...
... thing happened at one window , and they , when relating it , say that it happened at another , do not let it pass , but instantly check them ; you do not know where deviation from truth will end . It is more from carelessness about ...
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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.