 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 sidor
...any thing known to be his, you anfwered, — c Why fhould you think fo ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...wonderfully." JoHNSON. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pafs as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied pronnfe that I fhould not own... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 sidor
...the deception; for when Mr. Seward expressed a doubt to you that it was not Dodd's own, because il had a great deal more force of mind in it than any...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.'" JOHNSOK. "Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could do him anv good, that wak... | |
 | John Jaques - 1843 - 426 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 556 sidor
...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...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." On another occasion, Johnson expressed a doubt himself as to whether Dodd had really composed a certain... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 sidor
...because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than anything known to be his, you answered,—'Why should you think so? Depend upon it, Sir, when any...wonderfully.'" JOHNSON. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me'to pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 sidor
...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...it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in i fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " JOHNSON. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me'to pass... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 sidor
...Boswell. " I shall suffer them to do it corporeally, if they can find a tree to do it upon." When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Being in company with one who thought fit to maintain Berkeley's ingenious philosophy that nothing... | |
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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. 
