 I was disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 542avtor: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 320 strani
...refused to attend my father to Uttoxcter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and UTTOEETEH ; the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago...to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a the corporation of I.idifield, in the year 1767, had for the merits and learning of Dr. Johnson. His... | |
 | James Graham Marquis of Montrose, Henry Winsor - 1861 - 416 strani
...disobedient. I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." This man, standing bareheaded in the thronged market-place on a rainy day, was then three score and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 strani
...circumstance, he states that he had been disobedient to his father, and that pride was the cause. " A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault....bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my father's book-stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." The idea of... | |
 | 1920 - 520 strani
...that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago [but a few before his death], I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter...considerable time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot I0p. cit., vol. 1. p. 28. where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and hope the... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 strani
...disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the aoumof that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault. I went to UtU,ieter in very bad weather, and stood for 'a considerable tins bareheaded in the rain, on the spot... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 366 strani
...disobedient ; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.' " Samuel Johnson made his first acquaintance with publishers in that town of Birmingham where his father... | |
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...I was disobedient,' he said to Boswell. ' I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. . . . A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.' Every one who reverences conscience, and who is not afraid of the Philistine's ready reproach of '... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 480 strani
...disobedient : I refused to attend my father ' to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, ' and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago ' I desired to atone for this fault." ' — But by what method ? — What method was now possible ? Hear it ; the words are again given as... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 strani
...went into the market, at the time of Business, uncovered my head, and stood with it b#re, for an hour, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition 1 stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." Who does not figure to himself this spectacle, amid... | |
 | 1872 - 398 strani
...with great pain. And 344 DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. when quite an old man, he went to Uttoxeter in very tad weather, and stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain on the spot where his father's stall formerly stood. He said, " In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory."... | |
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