 | Thomas Dreier - 1913 - 200 σελίδες
...of me what Doctor Johnson said of Edmund Burke: "Burke, sir, is such a man that, if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped...talk to you in such a manner, that when you parted you'd say, 'This is an extraordinary man.' " HIS GREATEST GIFT "That man over there with the white... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 σελίδες
...table, he '11 speak to somebody at the other end. Burke, sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street where you were stopped...stepped aside to take shelter but for five minutes, he 'd talk to you in such a manner, that, when you parted, you would say, this is an extraordinary... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1916 - 174 σελίδες
...now, it would kill me." At another time he said : "Burke, sir, is such a man that, if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped...talk to you in such a manner, that when you parted you'd say — 'This is an extraordinary man.' " "Can he wind into a subject like a serpent, as Burke... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 238 σελίδες
...varied nor wavered. " Burke," he said in a well-known passage, " is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped...parted, you would say, This is an extraordinary man. He is never what we would call humdrum ; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 σελίδες
...extraordinary, that it is very difficult to ascertain precisely the rank and value of each. first time in a street where you were stopped by a drove of oxen,...Now, you may be long enough with me, without finding any thing extraordinary.' He said, he believed Burke was intended for the law ; but either had not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 σελίδες
...oratory a commanding figure. Dr. Johnson tells us that if by chance you were thrown into his company "but for five minutes he'd talk to you in such a manner...parted you would say, 'This is an extraordinary man.' " His eccentricities, however, like those of Johnson have almost degenerated into the tags of caricature,... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1926 - 458 σελίδες
...1792. APPRECIATION OF BURKE'S GENIUS 289 "Burke," he pronounced, "is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped...parted, you would say, This is an extraordinary man. He is never what "we would call humdrum ; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off."... | |
 | Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - 1928 - 296 σελίδες
...extraordinary man." Whereas d substitutes (under August 15) " Burke, sir, is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the street where you were stopped...parted, you would say, This is an extraordinary man." This latter version appears to be corrupt — one does not take shelter from oxen ; the former may... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1928 - 266 σελίδες
...mind is perpetual," and again: "Burke, Sir, is such a man that, if you met him for the first time in a street where you were stopped by a drove of oxen,...parted, you would say: 'This is an extraordinary man.' " It is a munificent tribute, and Johnson repeated it again and again in other forms. And it cannot... | |
 | J. S. McClelland - 1996 - 828 σελίδες
...the archTory Dr Johnson could admire unreservedly: 'Burke, Sir, is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped...you would say, •This is an extraordinary man."' Burke's performance in the impeachment of Warren Hastings for misgovernment in India made the novelist... | |
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Burke, sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street where you were stopped by a drove of oxen, and you and he stepped aside to take shelter but for five minutes, he'd talk to you in such a manner, that, when you parted, you... 
