 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...atrocious crime, and some one ventured to deny this strange assertion, Johnson immediately said, " Sir, I agree with him : for the infidel would be guilty of any crime if he were inclined to it." — (Boswell, III. 52.) His impatience of hearing any one commended whose orthodoxy was suspected is... | |
 | John R. McCulloch - 1849 - 682 pages
...équivalent Our great moralist, Dr Johnson, has maintained the same doctrine. " Many things," he observes, " which are false are transmitted from book to book,...that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of the buildings in London : does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 pages
...Equivalent Our great moralist, Dr Johnson, has maintained the same doctrine. " Many things," lie observes, " which are false are transmitted from book to book,...that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of the buildings in London : does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation,... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...copy be autiei, forfeits all pretence To fame — to copy faults, is want of sense. Churchill. DXCV. Many things which are false are transmitted from book...London ; does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation, and this all from the exertion of industry 1 People will... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pages
...atrocious crime, and some one ventured to deny this strange assertion, Johnson immediately said, " Sir, I agree with him : for the infidel would be guilty of any crime if he were inclined to it."— (Boswell, III. 52.) His impatience of hearing any one commended whose orthodoxy was suspected is well... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...atrocious crime, and some one ventured to deny this strange assertion, Johnson immediately said, " Sir, I agree with him : for the infidel would be guilty of any crime if he were inclined to it."— (Boswell, III. 52.) His impatience of hearing any one commended whose orthodoxy was suspected is well... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...are surer of the odiousness of the one than of the error of the other. JOHXSOS : ' Sir, I agree 302 with him ; for the infidel would be guilty of any...crime if he were inclined to it. ' ' Many things which arc false are transmitted from book to book, and gain credit in the world. One of these is the cry... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...because we are surer of the odiousness of the one, than of the errour of the other. JOHNSON. " Sir, I agree with him ; for the infidel would be guilty of...that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of building in London. Does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...because we are surer of the odiousness of the one, than of the errour of the other. JOHNSON. " Sir, I agree with him ; for the infidel would be guilty of...that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of building in London. Does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...in our eye, that we may always advance towards it, though we know it can never be reached. JLUXURY. MANY things which are false are transmitted from book...London. Does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation, and this all from the exertion of industry ? People will... | |
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Many things which are false are transmitted from book to book, and gain credit in the world. One of these is the cry against the evil of luxury. Now the truth, is that luxury produces much good. Take the luxury of buildings in London. 
