Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... pleasure which it furnishes ' . I experienced immediate happiness while whirled along with such a com- panion , and said to him , ' Sir , you observed one day at General Oglethorpe's ' , that a man is never happy for the present , but ...
... pleasure which it furnishes ' . I experienced immediate happiness while whirled along with such a com- panion , and said to him , ' Sir , you observed one day at General Oglethorpe's ' , that a man is never happy for the present , but ...
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... owned , That wit is generally false reasoning . ' The wit was Wych- erley . See his letter xvi . to Pope in Pope's Works . Warburton's Divine Legation , i . xii . the 24 Johnson's pleasure in contradiction . [ A.D. 1776 .
... owned , That wit is generally false reasoning . ' The wit was Wych- erley . See his letter xvi . to Pope in Pope's Works . Warburton's Divine Legation , i . xii . the 24 Johnson's pleasure in contradiction . [ A.D. 1776 .
Stran 24
... pleasure in contradiction , especially when any opinion whatever was delivered with an air of confidence2 ; so that there was hardly any topick , if not one of the great truths of Religion and- Morality , that he might not have been ...
... pleasure in contradiction , especially when any opinion whatever was delivered with an air of confidence2 ; so that there was hardly any topick , if not one of the great truths of Religion and- Morality , that he might not have been ...
Stran 27
... pleasures of some sort are necessary to the in- tellectual as to the corporeal health ; and those who resist gaiety will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite ; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand ...
... pleasures of some sort are necessary to the in- tellectual as to the corporeal health ; and those who resist gaiety will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite ; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand ...
Stran 42
... pleasure : cock - fighting , or bear - baiting , will raise the spirits of a company , as drinking does , though surely they will not improve conversation . I also admit , that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking ...
... pleasure : cock - fighting , or bear - baiting , will raise the spirits of a company , as drinking does , though surely they will not improve conversation . I also admit , that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking ...
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