 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 466 Seiten
...words mentally. Beginners read syllable by syllable. " A man must be a poor beast," said Dr. Johnson, " that should read no more in quantity than he could utter aloud." There are books of which we ean exhaust a page of its meaning at a glance ; but a man cannot do justice... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 482 Seiten
...words mentally. Beginners read syllable by syllable. " A man must be a poor beast," said Dr. Johnson, " that should read no more in quantity than he could utter aloud." There are books of which we can exhaust a page of its meaning at a glance ; but a man cannot do justice... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 Seiten
...Depend upon it,' said he, ' that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing...which should always have the Saxon k added to the c!' " ' Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived.... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 Seiten
...Talking of Depend upon it, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing...there never is any recourse to the mention of it. — Life. Langton's Collectanea, 1780. Missionaries are too sanguine in their Missionaries , , . accounts... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 Seiten
...Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing...which should always have the Saxon k added to the c\' ' Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived 4 :... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 Seiten
...Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing...which should always have the Saxon k added to the c3.' ' Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived4:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 Seiten
...upon it," said Johnson, " that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing...there never is any recourse to the mention of it." ' — Boswell's Life of Johnson, iv. 31. P. 43, 1. 3. imagining ... In like manner Polonius ' imagined... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 Seiten
...Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing...misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it V ' A man must be a poor beast that should read no more in quantity than he could utter aloud.' ' Imlac... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 Seiten
...Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing...there never is any recourse to the mention of it. — heard, he addressed himself to the gentleman, "I think, Sir, you were saying something about,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 Seiten
...Misfortunes : DEPEND upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing...there never is any recourse to the mention of it. Boswell's Life of Johnson, iv. 31. Missionaries : THE first propagators of Christianity recommended... | |
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Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it. 
