 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 σελίδες
...but a great * See r*£e nt. 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 - 1820 - 412 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 - 1820 - 550 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 conde»... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 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.'... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 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 bv clcmcncv and condescension.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 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 - 1826 - 444 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... 
