...conquest. "There is no arguing with him," said Goldsmith, alluding to a speech in one of Cibber's plays ; "for, if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." No man, however, possessed more ot the milk of human kindness than Johnson ; was more ready to assist...

...opinion is, that it is robbing the human race. — Mill. 10. There is no getting along with Johnson ; if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt of it. — Goldsmith. 11. We think in words ; and when we lack fit words, we lack fit thoughts. —...

...that came to hand. "There is no arguing with Johnson," said Goldsmith, quoting a phrase from Gibber, " for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt-end of it." Johnson's view of conversation is indicated by his remark about Burke. " That fellow,"...

...what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of Gibber's comedies: " There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt-end of it."—Boswell. Last night, at the inn, when the factor in Tyr-yi spoke of his having heard...

...what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of Gibber's comedies: " There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt-end of it."—Boswell. Last night, at the inn, when the factor in Tyr-yi spoke of his having heard...

...has a thumping majority behind him, is a pure waste of time. Like that celebrated Englishman, when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. An American philosopher once declared that one with the Almighty is a majority, but in firewater's...

...his arguments were weapons, and Goldsmith could say of him, 'There's no getting along with Johnson ; if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt of it.' Writing to Mrs. Thrale from the Hebrides, he says: 'When we were taken up stairs, a dirty fellow...

...that came to hand. " There is no arguing with Johnson," said Goldsmith, quoting a phrase from Gibber, "for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt-end of it. " Johnson's view of conversation is indicated by his remark about Burke. "That fellow,"...

...opinion is, that it is robbing the human race.—Mill. 10. There is no getting along with Johnson; if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt of it.—Goldsmith. 11. We think in words; and when we lack fit words, we lack fit thoughts.—White....

...what Goldsmith said of him, with the aid of a very witty image from one of Cibber's comedies: " There is no arguing with Johnson : for if his pistol misses...butt end of it." Another was this : when a gentleman 4 of eminence in the literary world was violently censured for attacking people by anonymous paragraphs...