 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...properly ; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such cant : but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end.' P. 19. " This, I fear, was however at best a momentary refuge, found out by perverseness... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...properly ; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such cant : but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end.' «'• P. 19. « This, I fear, was however at best a momentary refuge, found out... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...properly ; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such cant : but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end." This, I fear, was, however, at best a momentary refuge, found out by perverseness.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...endeavour to 1enrn behaviour, and such cant : but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to-do, and what" to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end.' " This, I fear, Was however at best a momentary refuge, found out by perverseness... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...properly ; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such cant : but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end." This, I fear, was, however, at best a momentary refuge, found out by perverseness.... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...myself properly; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such cant: but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end." This, I fear, was, however, at best a momentary refuse, found out by perrerseness.... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...myself properly; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such cant: but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end." This, I fear, was, however, at best a momentary refuge, found out by perverseness.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...properly ; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such cant : but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, "and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end." This, I fear, was however at best a momentary refuge, found out by perverseness.... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - Authors, English - 1884 - 490 pages
...properly; that I should endeavour to learn befiaviour, and such cant : but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end." This, I fear, was however at best a momentary refuge, found out by perverseness.... | |
 | James Gow - Classical antiquities - 1889 - 410 pages
...properly ; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such cant ; but when I replied that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for that time at least, at an end." So, to many Greeks, the connexion of wisdom and virtue, and the meaning of these... | |
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My mother (said he) was always telling me that I did not behave myself properly; that I should endeavour to learn behaviour, and such. cant: but when I replied, that she ought to tell me what to do, and what to avoid, her admonitions were commonly, for... 
