 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...and practice is greater in some men than in others. I recollect very little of this night's conversation. I am sorry that indolence came upon me towards... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them," was thus reprimanded by him :—" Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...sincere in good principles, without having good practice ?" But let no man encourage or soothe himself in " presumptuous sin," from knowing that Johnson was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The Doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...and practice is greater in some men than in others. I recollect very little of this night's conversation. I am sorry that indolence came on me towards... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them,' was thus reprimanded by him :—' Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...sincere in good principles, without having good practice ' ?' But let no man encourage or soothe himself in ' presumptuous sin Y from knowing that Johnson was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...between principles and practice is greater in some men thau in others. I recollect very little of this night's conversation. I am sorry that indolence came... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pages
...cruet, 231; "I saw what they called a wood, which I unluckily took for heath," 289 ; " Sir,are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...in good principles, without having good practice?" 313; Johnny Home, with his earth gaping and destruction crying, 315; Mr. Harris, a coxcomb, 329 ; Sir... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 pages
...cruet, 231 ; "I saw what they called a wood, which I unluckily took for heath," 289 : " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...in good principles, without having good practice?" 313; Johnny Home, with his earth gaping and destruction crying, 315; Mr. Harris, a coxcomb, 329 ; Sir... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them," was thus reprimanded by him:—" Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may 1 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (3rd edition, p. 209). [See below, vol. v., p. 177.] On the same... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them," was thus reprimanded by him :— " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may 1 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (3rd edition, p. 209). [See Mow, vol. v., p. 177.] On the same... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 540 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them," was thus reprimanded by him :— " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may ' Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (3rd edition, p. 209). [See telow, vol. v., p. 177.] On the same... | |
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M'Aulay passed the evening with us at our inn. When Dr Johnson spoke of people whose principles were good, but whose practice was faulty, Mr M'Aulay said, he had no notion of people being in earnest in their good professions, whose practice was not suitable... 
