 | Sheila Thompson - 1999 - 236 Seiten
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 | Ivor Morris - 1999 - 200 Seiten
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 | Sam Horn - 2000 - 356 Seiten
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 | 2001 - 838 Seiten
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 | Frederick M. Toates, Frederick Toates, Olga Coschug-Toates - 2002 - 294 Seiten
...Nothing could be worse than being alone, or going back to an empty house. To Johnson what was needed was conversation. '. . . where there is no competition,...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments'. Sir Joshua Reynolds told James Boswell 'He has often begged me to go home with him to prevent his being... | |
 | Jane Austen Society of North America - 2002 - 304 Seiten
...Johnson, Jane Austen's favourite moralist, once remarked that ideal conversations are ones in which "there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments" (Boswell 623). There is, of course, much evidence to suggest that Jane Austen inherited this ideal... | |
 | Jeffrey Hallat - 2003 - 209 Seiten
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 | Susan Scott - 2004 - 324 Seiten
...conversed with that person in the mirror? Perhaps he or she has much to tell you. Samuel Johnson wrote, "That is the happiest conversation where there is...vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments." It is my goal that your colleagues at work and those closest to you at home will experience this during... | |
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If you come to settle here, we will have one day in the week on which we will meet by ourselves. That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments. 
