Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume 2J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... infidel , a friend of his said to him , " I do not think that men who live laxly in the world , as you and I do , can with propriety assume such an authority . Dr. Johnson may , who is uniformly . exemplary in his conduct . But it is ...
... infidel , a friend of his said to him , " I do not think that men who live laxly in the world , as you and I do , can with propriety assume such an authority . Dr. Johnson may , who is uniformly . exemplary in his conduct . But it is ...
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... infidel was more detestable than that of a man notoriously guilty of an atrocious crime . Another differed from him , be- cause we are surer of the odiousness of the one , than of the error of the other . - JOHNSON . " Sir , I agree ...
... infidel was more detestable than that of a man notoriously guilty of an atrocious crime . Another differed from him , be- cause we are surer of the odiousness of the one , than of the error of the other . - JOHNSON . " Sir , I agree ...
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... infidel writer ; but that he was , nevertheless , a benevolent good man . JOHNSON . " We can have no dependance upon that instinctive , that consitutional goodness which is not founded upon principle . I grant you that such a man may be ...
... infidel writer ; but that he was , nevertheless , a benevolent good man . JOHNSON . " We can have no dependance upon that instinctive , that consitutional goodness which is not founded upon principle . I grant you that such a man may be ...
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... infidel , and came to be a very firm believer . ' Johnson said , " No honest man could be a Deist ; for no man could be so after a fair examin- ation of the proofs of Christianity . " Hume was mentioned . - JOHNSON . " No , Sir , Hume ...
... infidel , and came to be a very firm believer . ' Johnson said , " No honest man could be a Deist ; for no man could be so after a fair examin- ation of the proofs of Christianity . " Hume was mentioned . - JOHNSON . " No , Sir , Hume ...
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... infidel writer with smooth civility . " Where there is a controversy concerning a passage in a classic author , or concerning a question in antiquities , or any other subject in which human happiness is not deeply interested ' ( Mr. B ...
... infidel writer with smooth civility . " Where there is a controversy concerning a passage in a classic author , or concerning a question in antiquities , or any other subject in which human happiness is not deeply interested ' ( Mr. B ...
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