/lit/ - Literature

>>16846080
>Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired.
Where were you when Dr. Johnson (pbuh) destroyed Hume and the skeptics?

>>16799284
Stop shilling Ossian. You're wrong. You've been BTFO countless times. The poems have no particularly literary merit. They weren't really written by Ossian. Your foolishness is demonstrated by your obsession with Homer: it's never "Ossian is great for these reasons." It's always reactionary against Homer- "M-my guy is actually better than the greatest poet of all time! For real!" If Ossian was really great, you wouldn't let Homer live rent-free in your head.

As of 2020 medium rating

1. TV
2. FILM
3. CINEMA
4. VINYL
5. CASSETTE TAPE
6. CD
7. PDF
8. EPUB
9. PHYSICAL BOOKS

When did this happen?

>>16745468
Good. Fuck Hume and his absurd 'philosophy'

No.

>A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
>I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
>Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!

>>16685786
>cannot anyone write the Iliad, or the Odyssey
No, they have literary merit

"While talking or even musing as he sat in his chair, he commonly held his head to one side towards his right shoulder, and shook it in a tremulous manner, moving his body backwards and forwards, and rubbing his left knee in the same direction, with the palm of his hand. In the intervals of articulating he made various sounds with his mouth; sometimes giving a half whistle, sometimes making his tongue play backwards from the roof of his mouth, as if clucking like a hen, and sometimes protruding it against his upper gums in front, as if pronouncing quickly under his breath, 'Too, too, too.' All this accompanied sometimes with a thoughtful look, but more frequently with a smile. Generally when he had concluded a period, in the course of a dispute, by which time he was a good deal exhausted by violence and vociferation, he used to blow out his breath like a whale."

Was it autism?

>>16441847
>After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."