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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... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Pàgina 461
per James Boswell - 1831
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

1903 - 1186 pàgines
...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...
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Life of Johnson, Volums 1-2

James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pàgines
...her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish authour who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to noblemen into whose company...
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A Later Pepys: The Correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart ..., Volum 1

Sir William Weller Pepys - 1904 - 518 pàgines
...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...
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A Later Pepys: The Correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart ..., Volum 1

Sir William Weller Pepys - 1904 - 516 pàgines
...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...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

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...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pàgines
...to plead an excuse for so sacredly preserving them. — Albert Smith. LEVELLERS -Your levellers wish r. 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....
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 pàgines
...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...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...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

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...
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Putnam's Monthly and the Critic, Volum 7

1910 - 950 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 cannot...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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Selections from Boswell's Life of Johnson

James Boswell - 1912 - 106 pàgines
...me since. Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. They would all have some people...under them; why not then have some people above them?" Vol. II, p. 110. 1764 — ^Et. 66 That the most minute singularities which belonged to him, and made...
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