 | sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance...habits, is worse than others if he be not better."^ To return to Dr. Hill, nothing, according to him, was further from the truth that Macaulay's si atement... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance...odd, blunt way, that is mistaken, by strangers, for ill-nature. — 'Tisso odd, that there's no describing it but by facts. I'll tell you one that first... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance which justly provokes thehostility of ridicule; he, therefore, who indulges peculiar habits is worse than others, if he be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance...habits is worse than others, if he be not better. works, viii. 223. THERE is in human nature a general inclination to make people stare ; and every wise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance...which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule." — Johnson's Works, viii. 223. 1 " I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance...which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule." — Johnson's Works, viii. 223. 1 " I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - 390 páginas
...calculation recalls a story related by Pope, which illustrates a peculiar phase of Swift's humour. Says Pope: Dr. Swift has an odd, blunt way that is mistaken by strangers for ill nature. 'Tis so odd that there is no describing it but by facts. One evening Gay and I went to see him. You know how intimately... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 302 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance...which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule.' — Johnson's Works, viii. 223. Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom. Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 116 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance...odd, blunt way, that is mistaken, by strangers, for ill-nature. — "Tis so odd, that there's no 10 describing it but by facts. I'll tell you one that... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 páginas
...do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance...habits is worse than others, if he be not better." In the same spirit Johnson comments on Swift's propensity to " predominate over his companions " ;... | |
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Whatever he did, he seemed willing to do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule ; he,... 
