The table talk of Samuel JohnsonWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 128 Seiten |
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... 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 considered as his opinion , yet he has said it and cannot retract it ; and this author , when ...
... 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 considered as his opinion , yet he has said it and cannot retract it ; and this author , when ...
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... asked whe- ther he was the author , might he deny it ? Johnson , I don't know what to say to this . If you were sure that he wrote " Junius , " would you , if he denied it , think as well of him after- wards ? Yet it may be urged , that ...
... asked whe- ther he was the author , might he deny it ? Johnson , I don't know what to say to this . If you were sure that he wrote " Junius , " would you , if he denied it , think as well of him after- wards ? Yet it may be urged , that ...
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... asked if he had , I should hold myself at liberty to deny it , as being under a previous promise , ex- press or implied , to conceal it . Now , what I ought to do for the author may I not do for myself ? But I deny the lawfulness of ...
... asked if he had , I should hold myself at liberty to deny it , as being under a previous promise , ex- press or implied , to conceal it . Now , what I ought to do for the author may I not do for myself ? But I deny the lawfulness of ...
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... asked my opinion of it , that is honest praise , to which one may trust . But if an author asks me if I like his book , and I give him something like praise , it must not be taken as my real opinion . SECOND MARRIAGES . Were a man not ...
... asked my opinion of it , that is honest praise , to which one may trust . But if an author asks me if I like his book , and I give him something like praise , it must not be taken as my real opinion . SECOND MARRIAGES . Were a man not ...
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... asked , what is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge , experience will quick- ly answer , that it is such expectation as is dic- tated not by reason , but by desire ; expectation raised , not by the common ...
... asked , what is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge , experience will quick- ly answer , that it is such expectation as is dic- tated not by reason , but by desire ; expectation raised , not by the common ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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'.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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,
Seite 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.