 I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Сторінка 461автори: James Boswell - 1831Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 стор.
...since. Sir, your levellers wish to level doten as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling vp to themselves. They would all have some people under...have some people above them ?" I mentioned a certain author who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | Flowers - 1829 - 340 стор.
...allowed to sit down and dine with us.' She has never liked me since this proposal. Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." When ihe learned professions were talked of — " Scorn," said he, " to put your behaviour under the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 стор.
...doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levelleis 1 [Sec ante, p. 74, note. — ED.] wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot...would all have some people under them ; why not then Lave some people above them ?" I mentioned a certain authour1 who disgusted me by his forwardness,... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 стор.
...whose levelling reveries he complimented with an acute and unanswerable refutation — "Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot...under them ; why not then have some people above them" (Boswell's Life, Ann. 1763, yEtat. 54.). When therefore the possessors of rank and dignity, add fuel... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 стор.
...lose, is to level all ranks to their own condition. " Your levellers," observed Dr. Johnson, " wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." It is then a low feeling of self-interest which stimulates one man to obtain, if he can, what belongs... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 стор.
...her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot...have some people above them ?" I mentioned a certain author ('-') who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to (1) This " one Mrs.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 стор.
...her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish catched one of them. We had a saddle with us, which...upon it, and a straw halter was put on its head. Dr. authour 5 who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by showing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 стор.
...their passion for equality is that so admirably stated by Dr. Johnson : — ' Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.' This great truth was never so strongly exemplified as in the present state of society in France. In... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 стор.
...their passion for equality is that so admirably stated by Dr. Johnson : — ' Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.' This great truth was never so strongly exemplified as in the present state of society in France. In... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 стор.
...for equality is that so admirably stated by Dr. Johnson:—' Sir, your levellers wish to level dmni as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.' This great truth was never so strongly exemplified as in the present state of society in France. In... | |
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