 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 pages
...added, that the same person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks,...propose to himself from having the character of a lyar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pages
...having the character of a liar. But if he does really think James Macpherson, the author of Ossian. that that there is no distinction between virtue and vice,...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." ' Boswell's Life ofjoknson^ \. 432. • • MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, I received your foolish and impudent... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...added, that the same person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks,...the character of a liar. But if he does really think 1 He used to tell. with great humour, from my relation to him, the following little story of my early... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...added, that the same person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks,...the character of a liar. But if he does really think 1 He used to tell, with great humour, from my relation to him, the following little story of my early... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...that the same person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice. JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks,...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." Sir David Dairy mple, now one of the judges of Scotland by the title of Lord Hailes, had contributed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 412 pages
...she could never have been a good thing, and even that bad thing is spoiled/ v. 512, n. I. SPOONS. ' If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he 3'7 Spoons. Suspicion. leaves our houses let us count our spoons,' i. 500. STAMP. ' I was resolved... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pages
...affected in conversation to maintain that there was no distinction between virtue and vice, he said, "Why sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks,...distinction between virtue and vice, why sir, when be leaves our houses let us count our spoons." Of modern infidels and innovators he said,. "Sir, these... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - 1894 - 350 pages
...person maintained that there was no distinction between virtue and vice, " Why, Sir," said Johnson, " if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying ; and I do not see what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 pages
...their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed. — BISHOP HORNE. If he does really think that there is no distinction...when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. — DR. JOHNSON. All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature. — MONTAIGNE.... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...Female Character. A very unclubable man. n. SAM'L JOHNSON — BoswelFs Life of Johnson. 1764. Note. o. SAM'L JOHNSON — BoswelFs Life of Johnson. 1763, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless... | |
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Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when... 
