 | James Boswell - 1887 - 414 Seiten
...experience,' ii. 128. TRUTH. 'I considered myself as entrusted with a certain portion of truth,' iv. 65 ; ' Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth,...every other man has a right to knock him down for it,' iv. 12 ; ' Nobody has a right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 Seiten
...you must go round to other States than our own. You do not know what a Bramin has to say for himself. In short, Sir, I have got no further than this : Every...to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.” Boswell's Li* o/7ohntos, iv. Is. To-morrow: TO-MORROW is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 Seiten
...you must go round to other States than our own. You do not know what a Bramin has to say for himself. In short, Sir, I have got no further than this: Every...to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."' Boswell's Life of Johnson, iv. 12. To-morrow: TO-MORROW is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 578 Seiten
...must go round to other states than our own. You do not know what a Bramin has to say for himself. 2 In short, Sir, I have got no further than this: every...should begin to write soon; for, if he waits till his judgment is matured, his inability, through want of practice, to express his conceptions, will make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 412 Seiten
...experience,' ii. 147. TRUTH. ' I considered myself as entrusted with a certain portion of truth,' iv. 75 ; ' Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth,...every other man has a right to knock him down for it,' iv. 14; ' NoTruth. bodyhas a right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 304 Seiten
...which he feels to be true. " Every man has a right to utter what he thinks the truth," said Johnson, "and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test." P. 233. A wondrous buckram style. Read the comment on Carlyle's excuse of Johnson's rhetoric in Taine,... | |
 | 1904 - 686 Seiten
...way to avoid obstacles is to crush them (Robespierre). Every man has a right to say what he pleases : and every other man has a right to knock him down for it (Johnson). An Irishman, praising ancient architecture, asked, '' Where do you ever see a modern building... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 Seiten
...Convocation as a deliberative body commenced in 1861." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., vi. 329. 1 ' In short, Sir, I have got no further than this: Every...to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.' L-'fe, iv. 12. See also id. ii. 250, 254. * ' Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 532 Seiten
...Convocation as a deliberative body commenced in 1861.' Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., vi. 329. 1 ' In short, Sir, I have got no further than this : Every...to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.' L : fe, iv. 12. See also ti. ii. 250, 254. * ' Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 542 Seiten
...Convocation as a deliberative body commenced in 1861.' Encyclopaedia. Britannica, 9th ed., vi. 329. 1 ' In short, Sir, I have got no further than this: Every...to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.' L'fe, iv. 12. See also ib. ii. 250, 254. * ' Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree... | |
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In short, Sir, I have got no further than this: Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.'" " A man, he observed, should begin to write soon ; for, if he waits... 
