| 1877 - Liczba stron: 826
...vanity that would rather lose a friend than a joke. On this point Dr. Johnson once remarked : ' Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than...say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.' The vain egotism that disregards others is shewn in various unpolite ways ; as, for instance, by neglect... | |
| Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1877 - Liczba stron: 112
...ordinary minds by experience ; the stupid by necessity ; and brutes by instinct. — Cicero. 16. A man has no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. — Johnson. 17. The short convulsions and stillness that sucLESSON XV. 1. From labor health ; from... | |
| 1878 - Liczba stron: 496
...over * It is not a little odd to find among Johnson's sayings : "Sir, a man has no more right to toy an uncivil thing than to act one ; no more right to...say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." the formal, priggish periods of Hawkins, could not be provoked from us but by one whom we love. Posterity... | |
| Oregon - 1878 - Liczba stron: 984
...moralist, Dr. Johnson, whose precept upon this point is, I fear, better than his example, declares that "A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rud thing to another than to knock him down." Sidney Smith, the witty Edinburg Reviewer and Parson,... | |
| 1878 - Liczba stron: 662
...moralist, Dr. Johnson, whose precept upon this point is, I fear, better than his example, declares that "A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rud thing to another than to knock him down." Sidney Smith, the witty Edinburg Reviewer and Parson,... | |
| James Culross - 1879 - Liczba stron: 246
...of 1 According to Dr. Johnson — who did not always practise what he preached — "A man . . . has no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." place. Equally out of place is mere politeness. But through God's blessing Christian courtesy may be... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - Liczba stron: 388
...is given grudgingly in closely calculated return for the fixed wage. "Sir," exclaimed Dr. Johnson, " a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than...say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." The axiom is not the less valuable because it was so often neglected by him who enunciated it. And... | |
| Boys - 1880 - Liczba stron: 362
...fetch some trifling article that his sister requires, is simply selfish. Said Dr. Johnson : — " Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than...say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." In fact, some words are worse than blows ! An admirable instance of unselfishness is related of Sir... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - Liczba stron: 772
...while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good will. WASHINGTON IRVING. U DR. S. JOHNSON. Foppery is never cured : once a coxcomb, and always a coxcomb. DR. S. JOHNSON. Some... | |
| 1875 - Liczba stron: 562
...overwhelming numbers, and amid the thunder of French cannon Borne was forced to receive back her exiled pope. A MAN has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than...say a rude thing to another, than to knock him down. Johnson. FKBEUABT,] ALDEN'S OXFORD MAGAZINE. [1876. " "•' ilili • : • I [ I I' ^ •. ,^ 22(5... | |
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