Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 5A. Constable and Company, 1903 |
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... pleasure , and every pleasure is of itself a good . It is a good , unless counterbalanced by evil . A man may have a strong reason not to drink wine ; and that may be greater than the pleasure . Wine makes a man better pleased with ...
... pleasure , and every pleasure is of itself a good . It is a good , unless counterbalanced by evil . A man may have a strong reason not to drink wine ; and that may be greater than the pleasure . Wine makes a man better pleased with ...
Stran 30
... pleasure with them . But after a man has brought himself to relinquish the great personal pleasure which arises from drinking wine , any other con- sideration is a trifle . To please others by drinking wine , is something only , if ...
... pleasure with them . But after a man has brought himself to relinquish the great personal pleasure which arises from drinking wine , any other con- sideration is a trifle . To please others by drinking wine , is something only , if ...
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... pleasure ! ' — ' Is not harmless pleasure very tame ? ' JOHNSON : ' Nay , sir , harmless pleasure is the highest praise . Pleasure is a word of dubious import ; pleasure is in general dangerous , and pernicious to virtue ; to be able ...
... pleasure ! ' — ' Is not harmless pleasure very tame ? ' JOHNSON : ' Nay , sir , harmless pleasure is the highest praise . Pleasure is a word of dubious import ; pleasure is in general dangerous , and pernicious to virtue ; to be able ...
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