The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 5J.M. Dent and Company, 1902 |
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... pleasure from it . He has the crime of prodigality , and the wretchedness of parsimony . If a man is killed in a duel , he is killed as many a one has been killed ; but it is a sad thing for a man to lie down and die ; to bleed to death ...
... pleasure from it . He has the crime of prodigality , and the wretchedness of parsimony . If a man is killed in a duel , he is killed as many a one has been killed ; but it is a sad thing for a man to lie down and die ; to bleed to death ...
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... pleasure ; and every pleasure is of itself a good . It is 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 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 ...
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... pleasure with them . But after a man has brought himself to relinquish the great personal pleasure which arises from drinking wine , any other consideration is a trifle . To please others by drinking wine , is something only , if there ...
... pleasure with them . But after a man has brought himself to relinquish the great personal pleasure which arises from drinking wine , any other consideration is a trifle . To please others by drinking wine , is something only , if there ...
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... pleasure of verse . ” 1 We talked of antiquarian researches . JOHNSON . 1 This experiment , which Madame Dacier made in vain , has since been tried in our own language , by the editor of " Ossian , " and we must either think very meanly ...
... pleasure of verse . ” 1 We talked of antiquarian researches . JOHNSON . 1 This experiment , which Madame Dacier made in vain , has since been tried in our own language , by the editor of " Ossian , " and we must either think very meanly ...
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... pleasure . A man who loses at Ford's play , or who runs out his fortune at court , makes ghost his estate less , in hopes of making it bigger : ( I am sure of this word , which was often used by him :) but it is a sad thing to pass ...
... pleasure . A man who loses at Ford's play , or who runs out his fortune at court , makes ghost his estate less , in hopes of making it bigger : ( I am sure of this word , which was often used by him :) but it is a sad thing to pass ...
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