...refused to attend my father to Uttoxcter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and UTTOEETEH ; the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago...to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a the corporation of I.idifield, in the year 1767, had for the merits and learning of Dr. Johnson. His...

...disobedient. I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." This man, standing bareheaded in the thronged market-place on a rainy day, was then three score and...

...circumstance, he states that he had been disobedient to his father, and that pride was the cause. " A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault....bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my father's book-stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." The idea of...

...that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago [but a few before his death], I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter...considerable time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot I0p. cit., vol. 1. p. 28. where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and hope the...

...disobedient : I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the aoumof that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault. I went to UtU,ieter in very bad weather, and stood for 'a considerable tins bareheaded in the rain, on the spot...

...disobedient ; I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years...contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.' " Samuel Johnson made his first acquaintance with publishers in that town of Birmingham where his father...

...I was disobedient,' he said to Boswell. ' I refused to attend my father to Uttoxeter market. . . . A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault....contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.' Every one who reverences conscience, and who is not afraid of the Philistine's ready reproach of '...

...disobedient : I refused to attend my father ' to Uttoxeter market. Pride was the source of that refusal, ' and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago ' I desired to atone for this fault." ' — But by what method ? — What method was now possible ? Hear it ; the words are again given as...

...went into the market, at the time of Business, uncovered my head, and stood with it b#re, for an hour, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition 1 stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory." Who does not figure to himself this spectacle, amid...

...with great pain. And 344 DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. when quite an old man, he went to Uttoxeter in very tad weather, and stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain on the spot where his father's stall formerly stood. He said, " In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory."...