 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 strani
...sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good " ' (Life 5. 210). ' Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...very sincere in good principles, without having good practices' (ibid. 359). See 265. 12 ff. 75. 4. ' Works and Things Impossible, or at least not yet discovered,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 strani
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them," was thus reprimanded by him:— "Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...very sincere in good principles, without having good practice?"1" But let no man encourage or soothe himself in " presumptuous sin," from knowing that Johnson... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1915 - 400 strani
...nurturing1. We have been told, on high authority, that it ' shows gross ignorance of human nature, not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice2 ' ; but in Seneca's case the discrepancy is so glaring that it is hard to shut our eyes to... | |
 | David Graham - 1919 - 184 strani
...preference of things good or bad, and not from our opinions." 1 " Sir," said Dr. Johnson, "are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...sincere in good principles without having good practice ? " 2 And a modern writer on Logic properly says : " Judgment is not arbitrary or dependent on the... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 strani
...; and perhaps was justified. " Did not Dr. Johnson himself say on another occasion, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...in good principles without having good practice." Poor Dodd was at any rate frank enough when his pious friends tried to console him by saying he was... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 strani
...Did not Dr. Johnson himself say on another occasion, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human 23 nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere...in good principles without having good practice." Poor Dodd was at any rate frank enough when his pious friends tried to console him by saying he was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 strani
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The Doctor grew warm, and said, ' Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...unquestionably in the right ; and whoever examines j himself candidly, will be satisfied of it, though the inconsistency between principles and practice... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 368 strani
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them," was thus reprimanded by him: — "Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...in good principles, without having good practice?" Johnson's strongest argument was that which he employed to Lady McLeod (Hebr., 239) in discussing the... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 strani
...human nature," Johnson once asked — and, what is better, asked it of Macaulay's grandfather — " as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice ? " Delicious and characteristic is Sir John Hawkins's comment on this. "Had his acquaintance lain... | |
 | 1969 - 440 strani
...principle, and the practitioners were by no means willing to abandon the rule. PRACTICE AND PRINCIPLE Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature,...in good principles, without having good practice! , , . T _ .. Dr Samuel Johnson as reported 1n James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 25... | |
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M'Aulay passed the evening with us at our inn. When Dr Johnson spoke of people whose principles were good, but whose practice was faulty, Mr M'Aulay said, he had no notion of people being in earnest in their good professions, whose practice was not suitable... 
