 Being angry with one who controverts an opinion which you value, is a necessary consequence of the uneasiness which you feel. Every man who attacks my belief diminishes, in some degree, my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy ; and I am angry...  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life - Σελίδα 11των James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 σελίδες
...uneasiness you feel. Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it. I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. Those only who believed in reve60 lation have been angry at having their faith called in question ; because they only had something... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 σελίδες
...revelation have been angry on having their faith called in question ; because they only had something on which they could rest, as matter of fact.' " MURRAY : ' It seems to me, that we are not angry with a man for controverting an opinion which we believe and value ; we rather pity him.' " JOHNSON'... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 σελίδες
...less that he was half aware of some difficulties in his own attitude. Thus he said, " Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy." In his Dictionary he would not cite the Arian Clarke, though on his deathbed he pressed Brocklesby... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 σελίδες
...opinion which you value, is a necessary consequence of the uneasiness which you feel. Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes, in some degree, my confidence in it, and therefore make me uneasy. Those only who believed in revelation have been angry on having their faith called... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 σελίδες
...opinion which you value, is a necessary consequence of the uneasiness which you feel. Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence...something upon which they could rest as matter of fact. (Life 3 : 10- n) In Hume's (then unpublished) Dialogues, Demea shows just this kind of anger in the... | |
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 σελίδες
...unverifiable through proof; and such matters of faith Johnson would not allow to be challenged. Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence...something upon which they could rest as matter of fact." In the early 1770s, however, when Johnson undertook the revision of his Dictionary, these creeds and... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1990 - 392 σελίδες
...them: when a man has nothing to lose, he may be in good humour with his opponent .... Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence...uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy (April 1776). This, like everything else Johnson says about religion, is the cry of a man in pain.... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 σελίδες
...see nor half what you hear. What a man desires he easily believes. Seeing is believing. Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence...uneasy, and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. Samuel Johnson BELLS If you love not the noise of bells, why do you pull the ropes? BELIY A full belly... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 σελίδες
...ecclesiastic. Bishop of Durham. Quoted in: Daily Telegraph (London, 2 Nov. 1988). 19 Every man who SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84), English author, lexicographer. Quoled in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel fahnson,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 σελίδες
...more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. 5151 5177 Every man who 1732 1799 12263 I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideratlon 5178 The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not... | |
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