Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Now I am told the King of Prussia will say to a servant, ' Bring me a bottle of such a wine, which came in such a year ; it lies... The British Prose Writers - 153 페이지1821전체보기 - 도서 정보
| James Boswell - 1826 - 416 페이지
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON. " Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...in great things, and elegant in little things." He said to me afterwards, when we were by ourselves, " Robertson was in a mighty romantick humour ; he... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - 622 페이지
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON : u Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Now 1 am told the King of Prussia will say to a servant, ' Bring me a bottle of such a wine, which came... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 592 페이지
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON. " Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind • that can embrace...in great things, and elegant in little things." He said to me afterwards, when we were by ourselves, " Robertson was in a mighty romantick humour, he... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 584 페이지
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON. " Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...in great things, and elegant in little things." He said to me afterwards, when we were by ourselves, " Robertson was in a mighty romantick humour, he... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 페이지
...branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch-candle into every corner. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I am told the King of Prussia will say to a servant, bring me a bottle of such a wine, which came in... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 590 페이지
...with the most powerful -ability and animation. JOHNSON. " Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...will say to a servant, ' Bring me a bottle of such a wins, which came in such a year; it lies in such a comer of the cellars.' I would have a man Treat... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 360 페이지
...accustomed to assert, that a truly strong mind is that which can embrace equally great things and small. ' I would have a man great in great ' things, and elegant in little things.' At another time, when Mr. Boswell said, that he feared he had put in his Journal too many little incidents:—'... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 페이지
...• WALTER SCOTT. COUNT thy specious gifts, no gifts,but guiles. MILTON. THE truly strong, and soun<: mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. JOHNSON. IT is the same together... | |
| 1839 - 474 페이지
...topics of business and the ordinary concerns of life. " The true strong and sound mind," says Johnson, " is the mind that can embrace equally great things...great in great things, and elegant in little things." We would have a man simply equal to his work— par negotiis neque supra — and though we may allow... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 페이지
...with the most powerful ability and animation. JOHNSON. " Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace...in great things, and elegant in little things." He said to me afterwards, when we were by ourselves, " Robertson was in a mighty romantick humour, he... | |
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