 | 1903 - 1186 pàgines
...virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. ibid. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. ibid. 1 I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference ; no, nor the language the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pàgines
...shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers of authour who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | Sir William Weller Pepys - 1904 - 518 pàgines
...shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." A desire was one day incautiously expressed in Doctor Johnson's hearing, to witness a contest between... | |
 | Sir William Weller Pepys - 1904 - 516 pàgines
...shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." A desire was one day incautiously expressed in Doctor Johnson's hearing, to witness a contest between... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pàgines
...Aft»w»'r Elliott. Your levelcrs wieh to level down as far as themselves.— But they cannot lnmr leveling up to themselves. —They would all have some people...them. — Why not then have some people above them ? — Johnmn. Communism рояневяея a language which every people can understand. — ItH elemente... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pàgines
...letters, to plead an excuse for so sacredly preserving them. — Albert Smith. LEVELLERS -Your levellers ollier. Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their divineness by sick l^e JilllHHIIH. Those who attempt to level never equalise. In all societies some description must be uppermost.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 pàgines
...showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they...have some people above them?" I mentioned a certain author who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by showing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 pàgines
...levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down JAMES BOSWELL as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling...have some people above them?" I mentioned a certain author who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by showing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pàgines
...asking that her footman sit at the table with them. ' She has never liked me since. Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.' 2 The cant of Whiggism, like all cant, was sure to disgust Johnson. ' When... | |
 | 1910 - 968 pàgines
...allowed to sit down and dine with me!" He adds: "She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they...them; why not, then, have some people above them?" Sometimes these repartees, in anger or reprobation or in the fierce love of victory, grew actually... | |
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I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why... 
