 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pagina’s
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered,— ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." JOHNSON. " Sir,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pagina’s
...you that it was not Dodd'e own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Johnson, Sir,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pagina’s
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any tiling known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so? Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." JOHNSON, " Sir,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pagina’s
...^ou that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing entioned a distinguished gentleman of our acquaintance. JOHNSON : " Sir, if it were not a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " JOHNSON : "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 pagina’s
...because it had a great deal more force of mind m it than . any thing known to be; his, you answered j — 'Why should you think so? Depend upon it, sir, when...concentrates his mind wonderfully."' JOHNSON. "Sir, as Do(fd got it from me to pass as his own, while thai could do him any good, that waN an implied promise... | |
 | John Jaques - 1843 - 426 pagina’s
...general style, " Why should you think so?" observed Johnson ; "depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows that he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." " In one point of view," says Sir Philip Francis's advocate, " it seems unfortunate that the Letters... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pagina’s
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than anything known to be his, you answered, ' Why should you think...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " [It is stated in Miss Reynolds's " Recollections " and in the "Gentleman's Magazine, v. 47, p. 340,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pagina’s
...than anything known to be his, you answered, " Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." ' Jons SON : ' Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass at his own, while that could do him any good, that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pagina’s
...and resuscitate • Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." JOHNSON. " Sir,... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pagina’s
...expressed a doubt as to Dodd's power of writing so forcibly, Johnson felt bound not to expose him. " Why should you think so ] Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to bo hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." On another occasion, Johnson expressed... | |
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 
