 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 pages
...more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — " Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." ' JOtfrNSON. 'Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pages
...more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...wonderfully." JOHNSON. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an impl1ed promise that I should not own... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...more force of mind in ¡t than anything known to be his, you answered, * Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir; when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, ¡I concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " JOHNSON : " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 412 pages
...concentrated which produces high convenience,' v. 29. CONCENTRATES. ' Depend upon it. Sir, when à man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' iii. 190. CONCLUSIVE. ' There is nothing conclusive in his talk,' iii. 65. CONE. ' Л country governed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...deal more force of mind in it than anything known to be his, you answered, ' Why should you think so? down his I72 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON '73 books in two returned post-chaises. pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...wonderfully." JOHNSON. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...forcibly, Johnson felt bound not to expose him. " Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfolly." On another occasion, Johnson expressed a doubt himself as to whether Dodd had really... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...forcibly, Johnson felt bound not to expose him. " Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, air, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." On another occasion, Johnson expressed a doubt himself as to whether Dodd had really composed a certain... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — " Why should you think so ? ith his great Master. He had increased my admiration...remarks in the course of conversation, such as, when pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 224 pages
...forcibly, Johnson felt bound not to expose him. " Why should you think so ] Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates bis mind wonderfully." On another occasion, Johnson expressed a doubt himself as to •whether Dodd... | |
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 
