 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1786 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...to him, I never practifed myfelf, nor approved of in another. There is fomething fo ill-bred, and fo inclining to treachery in this conduct, that were it commonly adopted, all confidence would foon be exiled from fociety, and a converfation aflembly-room would become tremendous as a court of... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...by Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another. There is something so ill-bred, and so inclining to treachery in this...assembly-room would become tremendous as a court of justice. A set of acquaintance joined in familiar chat may say a thousand things, which (as the phrase is) pass... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another. (') There is something so illbred, and so inclining to treachery in this...assembly-room would become tremendous as a court of justice. A set of acquaintance joined in familiar chat may say a thousand things, which, as the phrase is, pass... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...by Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another.1 There is something so ill-bred, and so inclining to treachery in this...assembly-room would become tremendous as a court of justice. A set of acquaintance joined in familiar chat may say a thousand things, which, as the phrase is, pass... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...by Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another.* There is something so ill-bred, and so inclining to treachery in this...assembly-room would become tremendous as a court of justice. A set of acquaintance joined in familiar chat may say a thousand things, which, as the phrase is, pass... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...by Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another.* There is something so ill-bred, and so inclining to treachery in this...assembly-room would become tremendous as a court of justice. A set of acquaintance joined in familiar chat may say a thousand things, which, as the phrase is, pass... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...by Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another. There is something so ill-bred, and so inclining to treachery in this...would soon be exiled from society, and a conversation assembly room would become tremendous as a court of justice." This is a hit at Boswell, who (as regards... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...by Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another. There is something so ill-bred, and so inclining to treachery in this...would soon be exiled from society, and a conversation assembly room would become tremendous as a court of justice." This is a hit at Boswell, who (as regards... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...by Dr. Johnson or to him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in another. There is something so ill-bred, and so inclining to treachery in this...assembly-room would become tremendous as a court of justice." But another witness gives a truly ridiculous portrait of the faithful reporter at his work : — "As... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...never practised myself, nor approved of in another. There is something so ill-bred, and so inelining to treachery in this conduct, that were it commonly...assembly-room would become tremendous as a court of justice." But another witness gives a truly ridiculous portrait of the faithful reporter at his work : — "As... | |
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A trick which I have, however, seen played on common occasions, of sitting steadily down at the other end of the room to write at the moment what should be said in company, either BY Dr. Johnson or TO him, I never practised myself, nor approved of in... 
