 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pagina’s
...they were equal. FBOUDE— Short Studies on Great Subjects. Party Politics. 16 Sir, your levellers I. 22 O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature SAMUEL JOHNSON — BosweU's Life of Johnson. (1763) 17 For the colonel's lady an" Judy O'Grady, Are... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pagina’s
...shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they...have some people above them?" I mentioned a certain author who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pagina’s
...showed her the absurdity of the leveling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves." 7 On Saturday, July 30, Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the Temple... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pagina’s
...showed her the absurdity of the leveling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves." 7 On Saturday, July 30, Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the Temple... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pagina’s
...shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they...under them ; why not then have some people above them ? " 1 mentioned a certain authour who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference... | |
 | 1916 - 896 pagina’s
...good is nobler and no trouble,' bubbled from Mark Twain? 'Sir' (the word betrays it), 'your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.' Who liked to quote Burton's motto, ' Not honors, but honor'? — You are right: Gordon. And, finally,... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1937 - 936 pagina’s
...their Southern brethern." (6) 2302 - L Apr. 26; ed:2/4 - Dr. Sam Johnson once said: "Sir, your leaders wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them." "A century doesn't appear to... | |
 | 1856 - 596 pagina’s
...of his own most celebrated dicta was borrowed from it. ' Sir,' said he to Boswell, ' your levellers wish to level down• as far as themselves ; but they...under them ; why not then have some people above them ? ' ' This,' said Selden, ' is the juggling trick of the parity, — they would have nobody above them,... | |
 | 1836 - 610 pagina’s
...truth, their passion for equality is that so admirably stated by Dr. Johnson : — ' Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.' This great truth was never so strongly exemplified as in the present state of society in France. In... | |
 | Judith Sargent Murray - 1995 - 317 pagina’s
...and which the experience of every day may serve to corroborate. "Your levellers," said the Doctor, "wish to level down as far as themselves, but they...them; why not then have some people above them? I would not more deprive certain characters of their respect, than of their money. I consider myself... | |
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I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why... 
