 | Edmund Burke - 1895 - 154 pages
...imperishable tributes from one great man to another. " Burke is such a man that, if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...parted, you would say, ' This is an extraordinary man.' " Upon another occasion, when the doctor was ill, some one happened to mention Burke's name.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1895 - 158 pages
...imperishable tributes from one great man to another. " Burke is such a man that, if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...parted, you would say, ' This is an extraordinary man.' " Upon another occasion, when the doctor was ill, some one happened to mention Burke's name.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1898 - 442 pages
...he'll 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 by a drove...and you and he stepped aside to take shelter but for of which he can make another thing. But this applies to very few of the species. My definition of Man... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1898 - 142 pages
..." Burke," said Johnson, " is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the street, when 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 departed, you would say, ' This is an extraordinary... | |
 | George W. F. Birch - 1899 - 270 pages
...appeared. And old Dr. Johnson said of him, " 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...you parted you would say, ' This is an extraordinary man.' " There was William Pitt, whom Macaulay declares to be " the first English minister who formed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 464 pages
...end of the table he'll talk to somebody at the other end ; . . . that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...you parted you would say, 'This is an extraordinary man.' " Johnson also said that Burke was a better talker than listener — a not unnatural thing for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 pages
...to somebody at the other end. 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,...you parted, you would say, this is an extraordinary man. Now, you may be long enough with me, without finding any thing extraordinary." He said, he believed... | |
 | John Morley - 1901 - 234 pages
...passage, " is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the vi.] BURKE AND DR. JOHNSON. 107 street, where you were stopped by a drove of oxen,...you 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 502 pages
...street, where yon were •topped by a drove of oxen, and yon and he stepped aside to take •belter but for five minutes, he'd talk to you in such a manner, that, when yon parted, yon wonld say, This is an extraordinary man. Now, you may be long enough with me, without... | |
 | University of Sydney. Sydney University Union - 1902 - 360 pages
...it would kill me." At another time he said, "Burke is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...you parted you would say, ' This is an extraordinary man.' " He also said that he did not grudge Burke's 147 being the first man in the House of Commons,... | |
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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... 
