| James Boswell - 1785 - 548 pagina’s
...profeflions, whofe practice was not fuitable. The Doctor grew warm, and faid, fc bir, are you fo grofsly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may be very fincere in good principles, without having good practice ? [' Dr. Dr. johnfon was unqueftionably in... | |
| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pagina’s
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The Doctor grew warm, and said, ' Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...practice is greater in some men than in others. 1 Her first husband was the sixth Duke of Hamilton and Brandon. On his death she refused the Duke of... | |
| 1860 - 636 pagina’s
...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 ' that a man may be very sincere in good principle without ' having good practice ? " ' If we could afford to linger over Mr. Irving's pages... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pagina’s
...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...sincere in good principles, without having good practice ?"6 But let no man encourage or soothe himself in " presumptuous sin," from knowing that Johnson *... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pagina’s
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The Doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...that a man may be very sincere in good principles, withput havipg good practice f" Dr. Johnson was unquestionably in'the right; and whoever examines himself... | |
| James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pagina’s
...their good professions, whose practice was not suitable. The Doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature', as not to know...and practice is greater in some men than in others. I recollect very little of this night's conversation. I am sorry that indolence came upon me towards... | |
| James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pagina’s
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The Doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...the inconsistency between principles and practice are greater in some men than in others. I recollect very little of this night's conversation. I am... | |
| James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pagina’s
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The Doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...the inconsistency between principles and practice are greater in some men than in others. I recollect very little of this night's conversation. I am... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pagina’s
...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. Bnt let no man encourage or sooilie himself in presumptuous sin, from knowing that Johnson was sometimes... | |
| James Gregory - 1819 - 454 pagina’s
...falsehood and disingenuity ? " Are you," said Dr. Johnson to a reverend gentleman in Scotland, " are you " so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to " know,...good " principles, without having good practice?" Horace says, " Video meliora, proboque; deteriora " sequor," or as another ancient has expressed it-... | |
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