 ... his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care, to go out or in at a door' or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly...  The Monthly Review - 355. oldal1833Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 oldal
...contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage,...by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that, either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 oldal
...the street must often have made people turn round to look at him. He always took care, for instance, "to go out or in at a door or passage by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 oldal
...contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which) should constantly... | |
 | William Henry Burnham - 1924 - 792 oldal
...contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 oldal
...contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his ing me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea; or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - 1926 - 290 oldal
...contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage,...by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 oldal
...contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certa:n point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,)... | |
 | William Henry Burnham - 1924 - 736 oldal
...contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 oldal
...when his obliviousness is less complete, as in another wellknown passage where Boswell describes "his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage,...by a certain number of steps from a certain point": "I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with... | |
 | David B. Cohen - 1995 - 372 oldal
...Boswell describes some real eccentricities. One was Johnson's superstitious habit of anxiously taking "care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot . . . should constantly make the first actual... | |
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