 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 pages
...double for Boswell's printed page—both endow an author's ghost with the material density of certainty: After we came out of the church, we stood talking...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.' n This anecdote... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 pages
...leave your native country, recommend yourself to the protection of your CREATOR and REDEEMER." [164] After we came out of the church, we stood talking...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it,—"I refute it thus." This was a stout... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 2004 - 1086 pages
...remark recorded in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, vol. I, p. 471. On 6 August 1763 Boswell wrote: 'After we came out of the church, we stood talking...doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against... | |
 | Mark Blackwell - 2007 - 378 pages
...Berkeley's "ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter." "I observed," Boswell writes, "that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thtui. ' "2 Yet Boswell's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 pages
...going to leave your native country, recommend yourself to the protection of your CREATOR and REDEEMER." After we came out of the church, we stood talking...with which Johnson answered striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus. This was a stout... | |
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After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine... 
