| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 trang
...laughing) " Monboddo does not know that he is talking nonsense." — Boswell. HAPPY CONVERSATION. — He was pleased to say, " If you come to settle here,...competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiment." — Boswett. JOHNSON AND BOSWELI, AT STREATHAM. — When next Dr. Burney took rne back... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 trang
...laughing) " Monboddo does, not know that he is talking nonsense."— Boswell. 10* HAPPY CONVERSATION.—He was pleased to say, " If you come to settle here,...competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiment."—Boswell. JOHNSON AND BOSWELL AT STREATHAM. When next Dr. Burney took me back to Streatham,... | |
| Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 trang
...present position, and with any position to which the providence of God may call me. E 2 Conversation. THAT is the happiest conversation where there is no...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments. The great secret of being agreeable in conv ersation is to be willing to forget yourself, and try to... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 634 trang
...afraid, a Deist, say, that he did not believe there were, in all England, above two hundred infidels." He was pleased to say, " If you come to settle here,...his private register this evening is thus marked, " Boswell sat with me till night; we had some serious talk."' It also appears from the same record,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 trang
...meeting with any instance of this kind of open discussion." Another time he observed to Boswell : " If you come to settle here, we will have one day in...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments." Dr. Adams relating that in some of the colleges at Oxford the fellows had excluded the students from... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 522 trang
...afraid, a Deist, say, that he did not believe there were, in all England, above two hundred infidels.' He was pleased to say, ' If you come to settle here,...his private register this evening is thus marked, ' Boswell sat with me till night ; we had some serious talk V It also appears from the same record,... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 512 trang
...afraid, a Deist, say, that he did not believe there were, in all England, above two hundred infidels." He was pleased to say, ' If you come to settle here,...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments V In his private register this evening is thus marked, ' Boswell sat with me till night ; we had some... | |
| Florence Caddy - 1886 - 402 trang
...conversation, an art which we have lost. ' That is the happiest conversation,' says our Johnson, ' where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments/ But it must have . its elements of gaiety and humour, repartee and flashes of fan, or it is flat as... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 trang
...in physic.' He delighted as much as he excelled in the rough game of talk, yet he maintained that ' that is the happiest conversation where there is no...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments V He is as much struck by a brilliant spectacle as Miss Burney's heroine, the youthful Evelina. ' When... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 504 trang
...afraid, a Deist, say, that he did not believe there were, in all England, above two hundred infidels." He was pleased to say, " If you come to settle here,...his private register this evening is thus marked, " Boswell sat with me till night ; we had some serious talk." 1 It also appears from the same record,... | |
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