The table talk of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 128 pages |
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... man , but a very impudent dog indeed , can as freely command what is in another man's house , as if it were his own . Whereas , at a tavern , there is a general freedom from anxiety . You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise ...
... man , but a very impudent dog indeed , can as freely command what is in another man's house , as if it were his own . Whereas , at a tavern , there is a general freedom from anxiety . You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise ...
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... man he can do what he thought he could not do , is valuable . The first man who balanced a straw upon his nose ; John ... man's business : to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the busi- ness of life . ATTENTION TO TRUTH . Accustom ...
... man he can do what he thought he could not do , is valuable . The first man who balanced a straw upon his nose ; John ... man's business : to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the busi- ness of life . ATTENTION TO TRUTH . Accustom ...
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... man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes ...
... man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes ...
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Samuel Johnson. ON A MAN SPEAKING OF HIMSELF . A man cannot with propriety speak of himself except he relates simple ... man's self is oblique praise . It is in order to show how much he can spare . It has all the invidiousness of self ...
Samuel Johnson. ON A MAN SPEAKING OF HIMSELF . A man cannot with propriety speak of himself except he relates simple ... man's self is oblique praise . It is in order to show how much he can spare . It has all the invidiousness of self ...
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... man who spends two thousand and gives away eight . KEEPING A Journal . It is a very good custom to keep a journal for a man's own use ; he may write upon a card a day all that is necessary to be written , after he has had experience of ...
... man who spends two thousand and gives away eight . KEEPING A Journal . It is a very good custom to keep a journal for a man's own use ; he may write upon a card a day all that is necessary to be written , after he has had experience of ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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'.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 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.