 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1912 - 340 σελίδες
...himself wittily on the subject of hanging, for, as he said, " Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully." In like manner, in the true conservative spirit, he inveighed against the abolition of the good old... | |
 | Eric Russell Watson - 1913 - 274 σελίδες
...hole"; but, as was said by Sir Oracle at a rather later time, " Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." On Saturday, at ten o'clock, he wrote as follows, apparently to Mr. Collins : — Sm, I thank you much... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 σελίδες
...known to be his you answered, ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " Johnson, however, is not to be cornered. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 σελίδες
...known to be his you answered, ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " Johnson, however, is not to be cornered. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 236 σελίδες
...force of mind than anything known to be his. Johnson said, " Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Thinking for your life is good thinking. I The thing to aim at in ordinary prose is the Middle Diction.... | |
 | National Institutes of Health (U.S.) - 1971 - 290 σελίδες
...this problem very seriously indeed. Dr. Johnson once observed, "Depend on it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," and, indeed, a recent exchange of letters in Physics Today on this subject shows a power of concentration.... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 σελίδες
...century, particularly the twentieth. 5. 3. 6 JOHNSON, WIZARD OF WORDS Depend upon it, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors; whether I shall add anything by my own writings... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 σελίδες
...all the death which it has wrought. Victor Hugo, Les Miserable*, i, 4 ( 1 862) is When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson, in Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (19 September 1777) iv It is far more ignominious... | |
 | Stuart Corbridge - 2000 - 400 σελίδες
...collective senses is the aggregate version of an insight due to Samuel Johnson: '[W]hen a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight. it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The quip seems to apply with equal force to nations in severe crisis. as some of the key cases of radical... | |
 | Edward Kifer - 2000 - 140 σελίδες
...assessment is much like Dr. Samuel Johnson's defense of hanging: "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" (Boswell, 1922, p. 257). High-stakes assessments are meant to focus the attention of the educational... | |
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 
