 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
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...to sit down and dine with them ! "She has never liked me since," added he: "sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." And yet there was nothing flattering or servile about Johnson ; indeed his temper and course of life... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 стор.
...of the levelling doctrine. She has never likecV me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level rfotcn as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling...have some people above them?" I mentioned a certain authour :> who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by showing- no deference to noblemen into whose... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 стор.
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level doirn as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling...them ; why not then have some people above them?" — BOSWELL. LIfe of Johnton. QUACKERY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. In the OOUrSC of my life I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 стор.
...her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish e which he was satisfied was not a just one. " Sir,"...he undertakes, unless his client asks * (o be a f author who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by showing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 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 (2) who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to ( 1 ) This " one Mrs.... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1849 - 634 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 <fegusted me by his forwardness, and by showing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 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...under them ; why not then have some people above them 1" — BOSWELL. Life of Johnson. QUACKERY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. — In the course of my life... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 стор.
...his own most celebrated dicta was borrowed from it. 'Sir,' said he to Boswell, 'your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot...under them ; why not then have some people above them ? ' ' This,' said Selden, ' is the juggling trick of the parity, — they would have nobody above them,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 600 стор.
...celebrated dicta was borrowed from it. " Sir," said he to Boswell, " your levellers wish to level doirn as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling...them ; why not then have some people above them?" " This," said Seiden, " is the juggling trick of the party,—they would have nobody above them, but... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 стор.
...She has never liked me siuce. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but tbcy cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would...all have some people under them ; why not then have somc people above them ?" — BOSWELL. Life of Johnson. QUACKERY EJ THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. — In... | |
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