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 461per James Boswell - 1831Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1915 - 656 pàgines
...COMMUNISM. •I Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. They would all have some people...them. Why not, then, have some people above them? — Johnson. * * * <] The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. — Penn. An Open... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 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...They would all have some people under them; why not [1640 then have some people above them?" I mentioned a certain author who disgusted me by his forwardness,... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pàgines
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level dawn there rained a ghastly dew From the nation's airy...the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper o [1640 then have some people above them?" I mentioned a certain author who disgusted me by his forwardness,... | |
| James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pàgines
...since. Sir, your levelers wish to level doirn as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. They would all have some people...them ; why not then, have some people above them?" He said, he would go to the Hebrides with me, when I returned home from my travels, unless some very... | |
| Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 pàgines
...and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." " Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." " Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pàgines
...were equal. FBOUDE— Short Studies on Great Subjects. Party Politics. 16 Sir, your levellers wish O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature SAMUEL JOHNSON — BosweU's Life of Johnson. (1763) 17 For the colonel's lady an" Judy O'Grady, Are... | |
| James Boswell - 1923 - 372 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 shewing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
| James Boswell - 1928 - 670 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...under them ; why not then have some people above them ? " 1 mentioned a certain authour who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference... | |
| 1916 - 896 pàgines
...nobler and no trouble,' bubbled from Mark Twain? 'Sir' (the word betrays it), 'your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.' Who liked to quote Burton's motto, ' Not honors, but honor'? — You are right: Gordon. And, finally,... | |
| 1856 - 596 pàgines
...his own most celebrated dicta was borrowed from it. ' Sir,' said he to Boswell, ' your levellers wish to level down• as far as themselves ; but they cannot...under them ; why not then have some people above them ? ' ' This,' said Selden, ' is the juggling trick of the parity, — they would have nobody above them,... | |
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