 ... have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being...  THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D - Page 77by JAMES BOSWELL - 1892Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there 's an end on 't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...mischief: you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there 's an end on 't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...mischief: you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there 's an end on 't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...: you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gels his task, and there's an end on 't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...sisters hate each other." During Mr. Boyd's stay in Arran,he had found a chest of medical books, left by a surgeon there, and had read them till he acquired... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...Chief-Baron Parker, and Chief-Justice Wilmot were educated at this seminary.] and there 'a an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; he might be for some hours every day in very good...bread and milk for a penny, and do without supper. On 5 Johnson's observations to Dr. Rose, on this subject, may be found in a subsequent part of this work,... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...brother or sisters ; " a child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task and there's an end on't; whereas by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation for lasting mischief—you make brothers and sisters bate each other.— Boswell's Johnson. THE PORTRAIT... | |
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...— you make brothers and sisters hate each other." After leaving school, young Johnson remained at home, during two years, in a state of seeming idleness;... | |
 | 1850 - 836 pages
...terminates in itself; a child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task and there is an end on it ; whereas by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority,...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." But with the same right that Johnson in another passage of his conversation, and Goldsmith also, who... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...mischief: you make brothers and sisters hate each other." * Johnson's observations to Dr. Rose, on this subject, may be found in a subsequent part of this work,... | |
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