 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 páginas
...republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind-are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 páginas
...republican. One day, when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking....convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; ajid to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 páginas
...house.' 1 Had Dr. Johnson forgotten this among Bacon's ' Apothegms ' when he told Mrs. Macaulay, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking....that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us ' ? In allusion to Napoleon's shaving, Talleyrand observed to Rogers — ' A king by birth is shaved... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 páginas
...republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking....that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus, sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir,... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 páginas
...republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking....mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an imquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen,... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 páginas
...fools ; the wise men will do us no harm.' Equality. — ' Madam,' said Dr. Johnson to Mrs. Macaulay, ' I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all men are upon an equal footing, and to give you an unquestionable proof that I am in earnest, here is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 páginas
...republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking....earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus,... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 720 páginas
...leveller, and startled her by proposing, " Mere is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow -citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us. I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine." He frequently denounced the "doctrines"... | |
 | Gustave H. Doret - 1883 - 172 páginas
...One day, when I was at her house, I put on (4) a very grave countenance, and said to her, " Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking...unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest (5), here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved (6) fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 páginas
...republican. One day, when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her : ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking....earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow citizen, your footman. I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus,... | |
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Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your... 
