 | G. T. Howerton - 1892 - Liczba stron: 276
...Johnson was in the habit of retiring to his study without letting the servant know where he was gone. He would not allow his servant to say he was not at home when he really was. Said he, " If I teach my servant to tell lies for me, he will soon be telling them for himself to me."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - Liczba stron: 628
...apparatus for chymical experiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond. The place seemed to be very favourable for retirement and meditation. Johnson...when he really was. ' ' A servant's strict regard to truth (said he) must be weakened by such a practice. A philosopher may know that it is merely a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1908 - Liczba stron: 396
...bookseller of that name, had formerly his warehouse. I found a number of good books, but very dusty,and in great confusion. The floor was strewed with manuscript...when he really was. 'A servant's strict regard for the truth,' said he, ' must be weakened by such a practice. A philosopher may know that it is merely... | |
 | James Boswell - 1908 - Liczba stron: 396
...but very dusty, and in great confusion. The floor was strewed with manuscript leaves in Johnson'sown handwriting, which I beheld with a degree of veneration,...when he really was. 'A servant's strict regard for the truth,' said he, ' must be weakened by such a practice. A philosopher may know that it is merely... | |
 | 1908 - Liczba stron: 408
...apparatus for chymical experiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond. The place seemed to be very favourable for retirement and meditation. Johnson...servant to say he was not at home when he really was. — Bosu'ell's Life of Samuel Johnson. TRUTH AND FICTION THOMAS JEFFERSON August 3, 1771. WE never... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - Liczba stron: 602
...apparatus for chymical sxperiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond. The place seemed to be very favourable for retirement and meditation. Johnson...servant to say he was not at home when he really was. "A servant|s_3lnct regard for truth_._(said he) must.be weakened by such a practice. A philosopher may... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1912 - Liczba stron: 316
...that he thought it a pity to lose the credit of the suggestion. When Johnson explained that he did not allow his servant to say he was " not at home " when he really was, and justified it, Mr. Boswell adds : " I am, however, satisfied that every servant of any degree of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - Liczba stron: 370
...chemical experiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond. The place seemed to be very favorable for retirement and meditation. Johnson told me, that...interruption ; for he would not allow his servant to sav he was not at home when he really was. "A servant's strict regard for truth, (said he) must be... | |
 | 1916 - Liczba stron: 792
...apparatus for chemical experiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond. The place seemed to be interrruption ; for he would not allow his servant to say he was not at home when he really was. "... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - Liczba stron: 828
...apparatus for chemical experiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond. The place seemed to be nknown to former times, are now acting with a combined...and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to redu interrruption; for he would not allow his servant to say he was not at home when he really was. "A... | |
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A •ervant's strict regard for truth," said he, " must be weakened by such a practice. A philosopher may know that it is merely a form of denial ; but few servants are such nice distinguishers. 
