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" I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others, as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON. "Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling. "
The Table Talk of John Selden - Page 95
by John Selden - 1818 - 180 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...fenfibly as many fay they do." JoHNSON. " Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find thefe very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling." BOSWELL. " Foote has a great deal of humour?" JoHNSON. " Yes, Sir." BOSWELL. " He has a fingular talent...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...difcriminative manner, a portrait of the late Mr. Fitzherbert, of Derbyfliire. " There was (faid he) no fparkle, no brilliancy in Fitzherbert ; but I never knew a man who was fo generally acceptable. He made every body quite eafy, overpowered nobody by the fuperiority of his...
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Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Anecdotes - 1798 - 464 pages
...pay you by /«//«£." Of the late Mr. Fitzherbert, of Derbyfhire, he faid, " There was no fparkle, no brilliancy in Fitzherbert ; but I never knew a man who was fo generally acceptable. He made every body quite cafy ; overpowered nobody by the fuperiority of his...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 31

Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...releasedt.' I inquired if she • At Ashbourne, in 1776, Dr. Johnson thus characterized his friend : — " There was no sparkle, no brilliancy in Fitzherbert ; but I never knew a man who was so generally acceptable. He made every body quite easy, overpowered nobody by the superiority of his...
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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others as " sensibly as many say they do."—J. " Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find...brilliancy in Fitzherbert; But I never knew a man who was so generally acceptable. He made every body quite easy; overpowered nobody by the superiority of his...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON. " Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find...very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling." BOSWELL. " Foote has a great deal of humour." JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir." BOSWELL. " He has a singular talent...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON. " Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find...people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you Toy feeling." BOSWELL. " Foote has a great deal of humour." JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir." BOSWELL. " He has...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...discriminative manner, a portrait of the late Mr. Fitzherbert of Derbyshire. " There was (said he) no sparkle, no brilliancy in Fitzherbert ; but I never knew a man who was so generally acceptable. He made every body quite easy, overpowered nobody by the superiority of his...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...good ; more than this Providence does not intend ; it would be misery to no purpose. You will find very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you with feeling. It matters not how a man dies ; but how he lives. SAMUEL JOHNSON. THE LORD'S PRAYER IN...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...discriminative manner, a portrait of the late Mr. Fitzherbert of Derbyshire. " There was (said he) no sparkle, no brilliancy in Fitzherbert ; but I never knew a man who was so generally acceptable. He made every body quite easy, overpowered nobody by the superiority of his...
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