| 2004 - 652 páginas
...reply to Boswell upon being asked what he thought of "supporting a cause which you know to be bad" was: "Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to... | |
| Steven Lubet - 2004 - 616 páginas
...reported that Dr. Johnson took the same position with regard to arguing a case which he knew to be weak: Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it. * * * An argument which does not convince yourself, may convince the Judge to whom you urge it: And... | |
| Don Herzog - 2006 - 216 páginas
...a judge." BOSWELL. "But what do you think of supporting a cause which you know to be bad?" JOHNSON. "Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to... | |
| 1871 - 498 páginas
...judge. " Boswell. But what do you think of supporting a cause which you know to be bad ? " Johnson. Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I havo said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause... | |
| 1897 - 572 páginas
...particular, what he thought of supporting a cause which one knows to be bad. " Sir," said Dr. Johnson, " you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause... | |
| Lord Macmillan - 1938 - 300 páginas
...once more : BOSWELL: "But what do you think of supporting a cause which you know to be bad?" JOHNSON: "Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. You are to state facts clearly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad... | |
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