 | Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - 1897 - 268 páginas
...of sophistry in his day! It may be recollected that of one of them he thus delivered himself:—"If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons." a Foreword xiii I believe in the Woman-movement. Not in the exaggerations and aberrations of a small... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1899 - 386 páginas
...distinction. (i) ' Strange that such difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.' — BYROM. (ii) ' If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.' — DR. JOHNSON. REMARKS : — A difference is, in general, an unlikeness between external things.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...that the same person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice. JOHNSON : " y"P y" 8 y" Sir David Dalrymple, now one of the judges of Scotland by the title of Lord Hailes, had contributed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 páginas
...added, that the same person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks,...propose to himself from having the character of a lyar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when... | |
 | Effie Adelaide Rowlands - 1901 - 268 páginas
...Hudson, the man, like the master, felt that they had fallen in with real luck this time. CHAPTER VIII. "If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." BOSWEIX'S " LIPE OF JOHNSON." LIFE at the Larches was most undubitably not an idle one. General Cobbe... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. ibid. If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. ibid. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 páginas
...added, that the same person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice. JOHNSON. ' eternit lyar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when... | |
 | 1906 - 810 páginas
...the human frame choose that which is already enfeebled, HOLMES, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons, SAMUEL JOHNSON, Life, by Boswell, 1763 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 páginas
...is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.— JP ¿term. If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. — Johnson. If houcHty did not exist, we ought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...66. 5. Confound the colors of right and wrong. Johnson often rebuked this sophistry of his times. ' But if he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons' (Life 1. 432). 66. 22. Roman tyrant. Caligula, who in his violent excesses often exclaimed, in the... | |
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Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when... 
