 | Edward Ellis Morris - 1886 - 273 pages
...This was Dr. Johnson's opinion of his two eminent contemporaries. Speaking of Rousseau he said : ' I think him one of the worst of men, a rascal who...nations have expelled him, and it is a shame that he Voltaire and is protected in this country. . . . Rousseau, Rousseau sir, is a very bad man. I would... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - 1886 - 286 pages
...This was Dr. Johnson's opinion of his two eminent contemporaries. Speaking of Rousseau he said : ' I think him one of the worst of men, a rascal who...out of society as he has been. Three or four nations , . ' Johnson on have expelled him, and it is a shame that he Voltaire and . . . . T-. Rousseau. is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pages
...smile, ' My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man ?' JOHNSON. 'Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't...it is a shame that he is protected in this country V BOSWELL. 1 I don't deny, Sir, but that his novel5 may, perhaps, do harm ; second-sight: — 'As finite... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 pages
...smile, ' My dear sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company ; do you really think Aim a bad man?' JOHNSON. 'Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't...it is a shame that he is protected in this country. Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than that of... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 486 pages
...Rousseau, ed. 1782, xxiv. 328. It was on Feb. 15 of this same year that Johnson said of him : — ' I think him one of the worst of men ; a rascal who...it is a shame that he is protected in this country. . . . Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man ? " JOHNSON. " Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't...country." BOSWELL. " I don't deny, Sir, but that his novel l may, perhaps, do harm ; but I cannot think his intention was bad." JOHNSON. " Sir, that will... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
..."My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think kitn. a bad man?" JOHNSON : " Shenstone's lines : " Whoe'er novel may, perhaps, do harm ; but I cannot think his intention wns bad." JOHNSON : " Sirt that will... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 444 pages
...' My dear sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company; do you really think him a bad man ?' JOHNSON. ' Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't...it is a shame that he is protected in this country. Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 474 pages
...smile, ' My dear sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company ; do you really think him a bad man?' JOHNSON. 'Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't...it is a shame that he is protected in this country. Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 424 pages
...smile, ' My dear sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company ; do you really think him a bad man?' JOHNSON. 'Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't...it is a shame that he is protected in this country. Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that... | |
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Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame... 
