 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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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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. 
