CONTAINING APHORISMS ON LITERATURE, LIFE, AND MANNERS; WITH ANECDOTES, OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS: SELECTED AND ARRANGED FROM MR. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. He that questioneth much shall learn much, and content much; but especially if he apply his questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh: for he shall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking, and himself shall continually gather knowledge. Bacon's Essays. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE; AND WILSON AND SPENCE, YORK. TABLE TALK. LIFE. JOHNSON recommended to Mr. Boswell to keep a journal of his life, full and unreserved. He said, it would be a very good exercise, and would yield him great satisfaction when the particulars were faded from his remembrance. He counselled him to keep it private, and said he might surely have a friend who would burn it in case of his death. Mr. Boswell observed, that he was afraid he put into his journal too many little incidents.-JOHNSON. "There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."-Yet he said it was not necessary to mention such trifles as that meat was too much or too little done, or that the wea It |