 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 oldal
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any tiling known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that 1 should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 oldal
...thing known to be; his, you answered j — 'Why should you think so? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."' JOHNSON. "Sir, as Do(fd got it from me to pass as his own, while thai could do him any good, that waN an implied promise... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 oldal
...when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.'" JOHNSOK. "Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could do him anv good, that wak an implied promise that f snould not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been... | |
 | John Jaques - 1843 - 426 oldal
...general style, " Why should you think so?" observed Johnson ; "depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows that he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." " In one point of view," says Sir Philip Francis's advocate, " it seems unfortunate that the Letters... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 oldal
...than anything known to be his, you answered, ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " [It is stated in Miss Reynolds's " Recollections " and in the "Gentleman's Magazine, v. 47, p. 340,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 oldal
...that it was not Dodd's own, Ьесапк it had a great deal more force of mind in it than anything known to be his, you answered, " Why should you think...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." ' Jons SON : ' Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass at his own, while that could do him any good, that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 oldal
...the great surgeon, should not press loo tightly upon the was in attendance to try and resuscitate • Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 oldal
...and the unhappy criminal had him. But all was found useless, been chareed to struggle as Ktlle as i Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | 1880 - 556 oldal
...forcibly, Johnson felt bound not to expose him. " Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." On another occasion, Johnson expressed a doubt himself as to whether Dodd had really composed a certain... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 oldal
...than anything known to be his, you answered,—'Why should you think so? Depend upon it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...wonderfully.'" JOHNSON. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me'to pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should... | |
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 
