| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 σελίδες
...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. Journey to the Western Islands : Ineh Kenneth. If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. BosweWs Life ofjtohnson. An. 1763. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 σελίδες
...level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. ibid. An. 1763. If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Ibid. An. 1763. Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well... | |
| John Forster - 1877 - 468 σελίδες
...fellow from Scotland," who maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice. " Wby, sir, if the fellow " does not think as he speaks, he is lying ; and I sec not what honour he can propose supped at Boswell's chambers on the 20th ; they passed the 21st... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 σελίδες
...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." ' How much better is this told in the Life : ' Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks,...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.' Anyone who cares to study Boswell critically would find in a comparison of the other anecdotes not... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 σελίδες
...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." ' How much better is this told in the Life : ' Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks,...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.' Anyone who cares to study Boswell critically would find in a comparison of the other anecdotes not... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 726 σελίδες
...as soon as our guests have departed, was given by no less a person than Samuel Johnson, who says: " If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons. ' Count our chickens before they are hatchii — This sage advice proceeds from the lips of Hudibras,... | |
| 1878 - 720 σελίδες
...as soon as our guests have departed, was given by no less a person than Samuel Johnson, who says : " If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, whe;1 he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons." Count our thickens before they are hatched. —... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 σελίδες
...Johnson : " Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying ; and I see not what honor he can propose to himself from having the character...when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons." — Boswell. This evening one of our married ladies — a lively, pretty little woman — good-humoredly... | |
| James Boswell - 1879 - 302 σελίδες
...affected in conversation to maintain, that there was no distinction between virtue and vice, he said, " 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... | |
| James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - 1879 - 284 σελίδες
...affected in conversation to maintain, that there was no distinction between virtue and vice, he said, " 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... | |
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