The table talk of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 128 pages |
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... person appearing after death . All argument is against it , but all belief is for it . THE VALUE OF SKILL . It is not the worth of the thing , but the skill in forming it , which is so highly estimated . Everything that enlarges the ...
... person appearing after death . All argument is against it , but all belief is for it . THE VALUE OF SKILL . It is not the worth of the thing , but the skill in forming it , which is so highly estimated . Everything that enlarges the ...
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... person by telling the truth , or hurt himself by telling what is not true . The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture , and is not obliged to speak the truth , so that what he says is not ...
... person by telling the truth , or hurt himself by telling what is not true . The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture , and is not obliged to speak the truth , so that what he says is not ...
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... person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray con- tinually ; had the madness turned the opposite way , and the person thought it a crime ever to pray , it might not improbably have continued unobserved . SERMONS . Sermons make ...
... person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray con- tinually ; had the madness turned the opposite way , and the person thought it a crime ever to pray , it might not improbably have continued unobserved . SERMONS . Sermons make ...
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... person should exert himself for a man who has written a good book : he has not written it for any individual . I may as well make a present to a postman who brings me a letter . When patronage was limited , an D to seize what is ...
... person should exert himself for a man who has written a good book : he has not written it for any individual . I may as well make a present to a postman who brings me a letter . When patronage was limited , an D to seize what is ...
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... person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray con- tinually ; had the madness turned the opposite way , and the person thought it a crime ever to pray , it might not improbably have continued unobserved . SERMONS . Sermons make ...
... person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray con- tinually ; had the madness turned the opposite way , and the person thought it a crime ever to pray , it might not improbably have continued unobserved . SERMONS . Sermons make ...
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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.