 | John Morley - 1921 - 238 pages
...wavered. " Burke," he said in a well-known passage, " 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 is never what we would call humdrum ; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 pages
...extraordinary, that it is very difficult to ascertain precisely the rank and value of each. 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...oratory a commanding figure. Dr. Johnson tells us that if by chance you were thrown into his company "but for five minutes he'd talk to you in such a manner...you parted you would say, 'This is an extraordinary man.' " His eccentricities, however, like those of Johnson have almost degenerated into the tags of... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1926 - 458 pages
...APPRECIATION OF BURKE'S GENIUS 289 "Burke," he pronounced, "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 is never what "we would call humdrum ; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave... | |
 | Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - 1928 - 296 pages
...Whereas d substitutes (under August 15) " 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." This latter version appears to be corrupt — one does not take shelter from oxen ; the former... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1928 - 266 pages
...mind is perpetual," and again: "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.' " It is a munificent tribute, and Johnson repeated it again and again in other forms. And it... | |
 | J. S. McClelland - 1996 - 826 pages
...drove oi oxen. and vou and he stepped aside to take shelter hut for five minutes, he'd talk to vou in such a manner that when you parted you would say, "This is an extraordinary man."' Burke's performance in the impeachment oi Warren Hastings for misgovernment in fndia made me... | |
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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... 
