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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. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the ... - Seite 215
von James Boswell - 1888
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The Tide of Victory

Eric Flint, David Drake - 2001 - 321 Seiten
...told me about in the future that would have been, who made so many fine quips. Dr. Samuel Johnson. "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Chapter 23 THE DECCAN Autumn, 533 AD Rana Sanga kept his eyes firmly fixed on the ivory half-throne...
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Korea's Future and The Great Powers

Nick Eberstadt, Richard J Ellings - 2001 - 380 Seiten
...ofSanwelJohnson, cited from a letter from Johnson to Boswcll dated September 19, 1777. The precise quote is: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." 2. The examples of East Germany and Russia suggest that communist-era assets, when turned loose in...
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Rescuing Jeffrey: A Memoir

Richard Galli - 2001 - 212 Seiten
...small flake alone — delicate and innocent. But a group — hell bent, JEFFREY GALLI, DECEMBER 1997 Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — SAMUEL JOHNSON, FROM JAMES BOSWELL, LIFE OF JOHNSON Prologue I BELIEVE IN A WORLD OF CHANCE, OF...
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Foreign Policy for America in the Twenty-first Century: Alternative ...

Thomas H. Henriksen - 2001 - 172 Seiten
...endangered species. Dr. Samuel Johnson provided a reason more than two hundred years ago: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." There was plenty to concentrate the American mind in 1940-41, with the result that we had a grand strategy...
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Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

Walter Laqueur - 2001 - 402 Seiten
...fifty. Neither of these people had any experience evading the security organs but, as Dr. Johnson said, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Through German contacts they got advice on where and how to escape. Private Enterprise or Stories of...
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Presidential Disability: Papers, Discussions, and Recommendations on the ...

James F. Toole, Robert J. Joynt - 2001 - 620 Seiten
...conference one day, and he suddenly begins to behave in a manifestly loopy fashion. As Dr. Johnson said, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."* By the same token, an incident of that kind, drawing attention to the hazards of presidential dementia,...
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The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture

David E. Shi - 2001 - 354 Seiten
...permanent limits to American economic growth and standards of living. As England's Dr. Johnson once said, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The energy crisis certainly caught the attention of the American public. That the postwar era of cheap...
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Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, rev. ed.

Ian Stevenson, M.D. - 2016 - 355 Seiten
...a natural one. Here I am thinking of Dr. Johnson's remark about the execution of Rev. William Dodd: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" (Boswell, 1931/1791, p. 725). Further testimony on this point came from a condemned criminal, who,...
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Seven Weeks for the Soul: A Reflective Journey for Lent Or Other Times of ...

Gerard W. Hughes - 2001 - 280 Seiten
...hypocrites do: they pull long faces to let men know they are fasting. mHttHEUI 6: I. 5. II, "\\Tien a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," wrote Dr. Johnson. In the early days of Christianity, ashes were placed on the heads of penitents at...
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The One Year Devotions for Men

Stuart Briscoe - 2010 - 773 Seiten
...hanging. This phenomenon is similar to the one described by Samuel Johnson, in his famous observation: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."24 In many instances, the promises to God made in the foxhole have been fulfilled when...
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