 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 sidor
...forcibly, Johnson felt bound not to expose him. " Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, air, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." On another occasion, Johnson expressed a doubt himself as to whether Dodd had really composed a certain... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1912 - 342 sidor
...gentleman " — was wont to express 105 himself wittily on the subject of hanging, for, as he said, " Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully." In like manner, in the true conservative spirit, he inveighed against the abolition of the good old... | |
 | Eric Russell Watson - 1913 - 274 sidor
...in but a few hours in the "condemned hole"; but, as was said by Sir Oracle at a rather later time, " Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." On Saturday, at ten o'clock, he wrote as follows, apparently to Mr. Collins : — Sm, I thank you much... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 612 sidor
...you contributed to the deception; for when Mr. Seward expressed a doubt to you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind...thing known to be his, you answered, — "Why should vou think so? Depend 1777] GETTING UP EARLY 339 upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 sidor
...you contributed to the deception; for when Mr. Seward expressed a doubt to 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 vou think so? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 sidor
...you contributed to the deception; for when Mr. Seward expressed a doubt to 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 v's, you answered, — "Why should you think so? Depend 1777l GETTING UP EARLY 339 upon it, Sir, when... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 sidor
...to 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...it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " Johnson, however, is not to be cornered. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 sidor
...to 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...it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " Johnson, however, is not to be cornered. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 234 sidor
...whether it was Dodd's, because it had more force of mind than anything known to be his. Johnson said, " Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Thinking for your life is good thinking. The thing to aim at in ordinary prose is the Middle Diction.... | |
 | National Institutes of Health (U.S.) - 1971 - 290 sidor
...must necessarily consider this problem very seriously indeed. Dr. Johnson once observed, "Depend on it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," and, indeed, a recent exchange of letters in Physics Today on this subject shows a power of concentration.... | |
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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. 
