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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... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ... - Page 409
by James Boswell - 1786
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good " ' (Life 5. 210). ' Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...very sincere in good principles, without having good practices' (ibid. 359). See 265. 12 ff. 75. 4. ' Works and Things Impossible, or at least not yet discovered,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Together with a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1910 - 542 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...very sincere in good principles, without having good practice?"1" But let no man encourage or soothe himself in " presumptuous sin," from knowing that Johnson...
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L. Annaei Senecae Dialogorvm libri X, XI, XII.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1915 - 400 pages
...nurturing1. We have been told, on high authority, that it ' shows gross ignorance of human nature, not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice2 ' ; but in Seneca's case the discrepancy is so glaring that it is hard to shut our eyes to...
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Religion and Intellect: A New Critique of Theology

David Graham - 1919 - 184 pages
...preference of things good or bad, and not from our opinions." 1 " Sir," said Dr. Johnson, "are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...sincere in good principles without having good practice ? " 2 And a modern writer on Logic properly says : " Judgment is not arbitrary or dependent on the...
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Johnson Club Papers

Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 pages
...; and perhaps was justified. " Did not Dr. Johnson himself say on another occasion, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...in good principles without having good practice." Poor Dodd was at any rate frank enough when his pious friends tried to console him by saying he was...
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Johnson Club Papers

Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 pages
...Did not Dr. Johnson himself say on another occasion, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human 23 nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere...in good principles without having good practice." Poor Dodd was at any rate frank enough when his pious friends tried to console him by saying he was...
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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal ...

Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 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...unquestionably in the right ; and whoever examines j himself candidly, will be satisfied of it, though the inconsistency between principles and practice...
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Readings in the Concept and Measurement of Income

1969 - 440 pages
...principle, and the practitioners were by no means willing to abandon the rule. PRACTICE AND PRINCIPLE Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature,...in good principles, without having good practice! , , . T _ .. Dr Samuel Johnson as reported 1n James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 25...
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Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Fiftieth ...

Barend Van Der Heijden, Bahia Tahzib, Nederland / Ministerie van Buite - 1998 - 356 pages
...business, the duty to express support for fundamental human rights. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IN PRACTICE? A mau may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice. Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Carefully formulated policies mean little unless put into practice. This...
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Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote

Michel L. Balinski, H. Peyton Young - 2010 - 214 pages
...method that escapes from the population, new states, and Alabama paradoxes. The Controversy over Bias A man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice . SAMUELJOHNSON In the twentieth century the choice of a method of apportionment engrossed not only...
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