...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...contradiction, as I thought, took up his defence, and said, " Gome, come, this is not so terrible a crime ; he means only to vex them a little. I do not say that...

...saying in one of Cibber's comedies, which puts this part of his character in a strong light, — " There is no> arguing with Johnson ; for, if his pistol misses...fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." Wednesday, Oct. 6. — After a sufficiency of sleep, we assembled at breakfast. We were just as if...

...saying in one of Gibber's comedies, which puts this part of his character in a strong light,—" There is no arguing with Johnson; for, if his pistol misses...fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." Wednesday, Oct. 6.—After a sufficiency of sleep, we assembled at breakfast. We were just as if in...

...saying in one of Gibber's comedies, whichputs this part of his character in a strong light — " There is no arguing with Johnson; for, if his pistol misses...fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." Wednesday, Oct. 6. — After a sufficiency of sleep, we assembled at breakfast. We were just as if...

...closet, ii. 354. Argument, Goldsmith applies to Johnson in, Cibber's witty deINDEX. scription, " When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it," ii. 101, iv. 200 ; good humour in, the result of indifference, iii. 64, 65 ; and testimony, iv. 205...

...lady's closet, ii. 354. Argument, Goldsmith applies to Johnson in, Gibber's witty deE scription, " When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it," ii. 101, iv. 200 ; good humour in, the result of indifference, iii. 64, 65; and testimony, iv. 205;...

...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 fire, he knocks vou down with the butt end of it." Another was this : when a gentleman 1 of eminence in the literary...

...saying in one of Cibber's comedies, which puts this part of his character in a strong light, — " There is no arguing with Johnson ; for, if his pistol misses...fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." Wednesday, Oct. 6. — After a sufficiency of sleep, we assembled at hreakfast. We were just as if...

...good is his comment on Johnson's methods of controversy: "There is no arguing with Johnson ; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it." Some of his judgments show a prescience greatly superior to Johnson's. While Johnson thought that Beattie...

...the shadow. Of Carlyle, as of Johnson, it might have heen said, " There is no use arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire he knocks you down with the butt :" both men would have benefited by revolt from their dictation, but the power to contradict either...