 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 strani
...citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus, Sir, showed her -the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She...They would all have some people under them; why not [1640 then have some people above them?" I mentioned a certain author who disgusted me by his forwardness,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 strani
...expect he would behave to me, were I a nobleman' and he Sam. Johnson. Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay 1 in this town, a great republican. One day when I was...under them ; why not then have some people above them ? " 1 mentioned a certain authour who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference... | |
 | 1856 - 596 strani
...Selden, and one of his own most celebrated dicta was borrowed from it. ' Sir,' said he to Boswell, ' your levellers wish to level down• as far as themselves...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,... | |
 | Judith Sargent Murray - 1995 - 317 strani
...and which the experience of every day may serve to corroborate. "Your levellers," said the Doctor, "wish to level down as far as themselves, but they...them; why not then have some people above them? I would not more deprive certain characters of their respect, than of their money. I consider myself... | |
 | Stephen R. L. Clark - 2000 - 352 strani
...well-behaved fellowcitizen, your footman; I desire that he may he allowed to sit down and dine with us.' . . . She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers...under them; why not then have some people above them? 40 Johnson went on to observe that distinction of rank 'creates no jealousy, as it is allowed to be... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 strani
...kinds of poetry. [6 July 1763] Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Johnson (1791) 1980:301. 2 [Johnson]: Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves;...under them; why not then have some people above them? [21 July 1763] Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Johnson (1791) 1980:317. 3 [Bosuvll]: Sir Alexander... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 2002 - 412 strani
...not tell you they would have nobody under them." [Borrowed by Dr. Johnson when he said to Bos well, " Your, levellers wish to level down as far as themselves...them; why not then have some people .above them?"] . " Sermons. " First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric ; rhetoric without logic... | |
 | Rosemarie Zagarri - 2007 - 258 strani
..."dependency seemed right and natural." As Dr. Samuel Johnson noted in a different but comparable context, "Your levellers . . . wish to level down as far as...under them; why not then have some people above them?" All white males could be leveled up because women, children, blacks, and Indians were to be leveled... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 strani
...fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us." I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has...author who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by showing no deference to noblemen into whose company he was admitted. JOHNSON. 'Suppose a shoemaker... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 strani
...the same personage who afterwards made herself so much known as " the celebrated female historian." countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become...cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have_ some people under them ; why not then have some people above them?" I mentioned a certain authour... | |
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I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your footman;... 
