 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 σελίδες
...greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing .by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power : he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 σελίδες
...greatness of soul ; but a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power ; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 σελίδες
...but a great • See Page 153. mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity puts himself in his power ; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 σελίδες
...greatness of soul ; but a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 σελίδες
...greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power ; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 σελίδες
...greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power ; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 σελίδες
...greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power ; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 σελίδες
...greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any tiling by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity puts himself in his power ; he is either repelled with helpless indignity or endured by clemency and condescension.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 σελίδες
...admirers termed ' greatness of soul.' But he should have remembered, that a great soul never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He, that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power : he is either repelled with helpless- indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 σελίδες
...greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power ; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension.... | |
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... enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another. This transgression of regularity was by himself and his admirers termed greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains... 
