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" I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation. "
The life of Samuel Johnson - Seite 569
von James Boswell - 1817
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The table talk of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 Seiten
...grief "is mingled with remorse of conscience, it should be lasting. THE ACME OF EARTHLY Buss. If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend...understand me, and would add something to the conversation. PURE BENEVOLENCE NON-EXISTENT. To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human...
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Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom

Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 Seiten
...pretty women, however poor a judge he proved himself of female charms, and said one day : " If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend...post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who would understand me, and would add something to the conversation." Hannah More was a special favorite,...
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Appletons' Journal, Band 6

1879 - 592 Seiten
...this." And Mr. Main prints another "deliverance" on the same subject. " If," said Johnson, " I had no duties and no reference to futurity, I would spend...understand me and would add something to the conversation." The truism which Mr. Main calls a "profound deliverance" was an instance of Johnson's habit of contradicting...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 584 Seiten
...our way, Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise. "If (said he) I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend...to stop just where the Highland army did in 1745. JOHNSON. " It was a noble attempt." BOSWELL. " I wish we could have an authentick history of it." JOHNSON....
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LIFE AND CONSERVATIONS OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON (FOUNDED CHIEFLY UPON BOSWELL).

ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 Seiten
...let in f " Johnson again expressed his love of driving fast in a postchaise. " If," said he, " I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend...me, and would add something to the conversation." Of Goldsmith he said : " Goldsmith was a plant that flowered late. There appeared nothing remarkable...
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Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: (founded Chiefly Upon Boswell).

Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 Seiten
...let in ?" Johnson again expressed his love of driving fast in a postchaise. " If," said he, " I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend...me, and would add something to the conversation." What had our dear Doctor not observed with those quick, shortsighted eyes of his? — "Sir, of a thousand...
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A Book about Travelling, Past and Present

Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 Seiten
...biographer, " Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise. ' If,' said he, ' I had no duties and no reference to futurity, I would spend...me, and would add something to the conversation.' " And yet this was the man who thought the glories of the country "not equal to Fleet Street ! " Johnson...
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A Book about Travelling, Past and Present

Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 652 Seiten
...biographer, " Johnson strongly expressed his love of driving fast in a post-chaise. ' If,' said he, ' I had no duties and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly iu a post-chaise with a pretty woman ; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add...
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Dr. Johnson, His Friends and His Critics

George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 376 Seiten
...theoretical or hypothetical mode of cultivating it, he once set forth as follows : — •' If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend...post-chaise with a pretty woman, but she should be one that could understand me and would add something to the conversation.' In his eager search after all...
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Dr. Johnson, His Friends and His Critics

George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 Seiten
...hypothetical mode of cultivating it, he once set forth as follows : — ' If I had no duties, and ho reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving...post-chaise with a pretty woman, but she should be one that could understand me and would add something to the conversation.' In his eager search after all...
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