"My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated……" — James Boswell
"My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether."
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56 Quotes by James Boswell
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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable…
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said…
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not,…
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are…
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily…
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments,…
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on…
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We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to…
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must…
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.…
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Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling…
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Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in…
— Jo Brand
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The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is…
— Charles Lane Poor
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It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution…
— Unknown Author
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We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth,…
— Arthur E. Kennelly
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There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is…
— Oliver Lodge
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This…
— Abdul Kalam
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that…
— Edmond Halley
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They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree…
— Nikola Tesla
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I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its…
— Unknown Author
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