 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The doctor grew warm, ami said, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...and practice is greater in some men than in others. I recollect very little of this night's conversation. I am sorry that indolence came upon me towards... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 pages
...professions "whose practice was not suitable to them. — The "Doctor grew warm and said, "Sir, are you so "grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...in good principles, "without having good practice?" (a piece of knowledge, by the way, this of the doctor's, still in some degree open to doubt.) Next... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The Doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may he very sincere in good principles, without having good practice ? " JORKS0i4 AND LADY ','.' IX HAMILTON.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may_ be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice?" Dr. Johnson was unquestionably... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 192 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them," was thus reprimanded by him : — " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...very sincere in good principles, without having good practice?"b But let no man encourage or soothe himself in " presumptuous sin," from knowing that Johnson... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them, was thus reprimanded by him : " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...sincere in good principles, without having good practice ?" For all which, notwithstanding, Dr. Johnson would have been the last man to deny the force of example... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1876 - 974 pages
...could be earnest in their good professions whose practice was not suitable to them. " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know...sincere in good principles without having good practice T" The hard-headed old Scotchman breakfasted with them next morning, nothing hurt or dismayed by his... | |
 | 1881 - 314 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suited to them. The Doctor grew warm, and said — 'Sir, arc you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...in good principles without having good practice.' " Same, October 26. "Mr. Macaulay breakfasted with us, nothing hurt or dismayed by his last night's... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pages
...oblivion when personal connections and the floridness of novelty are gone." Of faith and practice, " A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice." There is something noble in publishing truth, though it condemns one's self. No one ever laid down... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 814 pages
...professions, whose practice was not suitable to them. The doctor grew warm, and said, " Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know...and practice is greater in some men than in others. I recollect very little of this night's conversation. I am sorry that indolence came upon me towards... | |
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M'Aulay passed the evening with us at our inn. When Dr Johnson spoke of people whose principles were good, but whose practice was faulty, Mr M'Aulay said, he had no notion of people being in earnest in their good professions, whose practice was not suitable... 
