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... keep going , simply by believing in keeping going ? It is a tautology which seems barely able to support itself . Why , for example , did Johnson carry on writing ? By his own admission ( in The Rambler , 207 ) , ' Difficulties ...
... keep going , simply by believing in keeping going ? It is a tautology which seems barely able to support itself . Why , for example , did Johnson carry on writing ? By his own admission ( in The Rambler , 207 ) , ' Difficulties ...
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... keep life in motion'.10 But with Boswell , as with Rasselas , ' every thing ' - as Burke put it is to be discussed ' . - So what do Johnson and Imlac mean ? Their language is vigorous , driving life on , keeping it in motion , but to ...
... keep life in motion'.10 But with Boswell , as with Rasselas , ' every thing ' - as Burke put it is to be discussed ' . - So what do Johnson and Imlac mean ? Their language is vigorous , driving life on , keeping it in motion , but to ...
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... keep going in order to keep us going , even though it is all repetitive and tautological and circular ? We do it because we need to do something and so need something to do . ' Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion ' : some ...
... keep going in order to keep us going , even though it is all repetitive and tautological and circular ? We do it because we need to do something and so need something to do . ' Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion ' : some ...
Contents
Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
Copyright | |
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affection apparently become begin believe better Boswell Chapter character commitment common condition consider death desire doubt essay example existence experience eyes fear feel felt finally force give ground hold hope human Hume idea imagination Imlac individual inside Johnson keep kind knowledge language learning least leave less limitation live London look means memory merely mind moral nature never offered once opposite ordinary ourselves pain particular passions perhaps person poet possible practical prayer precisely present question Rambler Rasselas reality reason relation religion religious remember rules Samuel seems sense sentence side simply sort speak stand strength suffer things thought translation truth turn virtue weakness whole writing young