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Table Talk : Essays on Men and Manners
Introduction
简介： There is a pleasure in painting which none but painters know. In writing, you have to contend with the world; in painting, you have only to carry on a friendly strife with Nature. You sit down to your task, and are happy. From the moment that you tak...
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VOLUME I Essay i. On the Pleasure of Painting
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Essay ii. The Same Subject Continued
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Essay iii. On the Past and Future
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Essay iv. On Genius and Common Sense
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Essay v. The Same Subject Continued
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Essay vi. Character of Cobbett
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Essay vii. On People with One Idea
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Essay viii. On the Ignorance of the Learned
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Essay ix. The Indian Jugglers
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Essay x. On Living to One’s-self28
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Essay xi. On Thought and Action
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Essay xii. On Will-making
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Essay xiii. On Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses
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Essay xiv. The Same Subject Continued
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Essay xv. On Paradox and Common-place
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Essay xvi. On Vulgarity and Affectation
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VOLUME II Essay i. On a Landscape of Nicolas Poussin
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Essay ii. On Milton’s Sonnets
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Essay iii. On Going a Journey
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Essay iv. On Coffee-house Politicians
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Essay v. On the Aristocracy of Letters
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Essay vi. On Criticism
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Essay vii. On Great and Little Things
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Essay viii. On Familiar Style
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Essay ix. On Effeminacy of Character
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Essay x. Why Distant Objects Please
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Essay xi. On Corporate Bodies
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Essay xii. Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the Boxes?
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Essay xiii. On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority
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Essay xiv. On Patronage and Puffing
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Essay xv. On the Knowledge of Character
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Essay xvi. On the Picturesque and Ideal
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Essay xvii. On the Fear of Death