 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...struggle as little as Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." JOHNSON. " Sir,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than anything six mile-stone, on the Edgeware Road,115 and had carried down his I72 BOSWELL'S LI a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.'" JOHNSON: "Sir,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...so forcibly, Johnson felt bound not to expose him. " Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, air, 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 - 1904 - 1590 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." ' JOHNSON. '... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 224 pages
...expressed a doubt as to Dodd's power of writing so forcibly, Johnson felt bound not to expose him. " Why should you think so ] Depend upon it, sir, when...he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates bis mind wonderfully." On another occasion, Johnson expressed a doubt himself as to •whether Dodd... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - Law - 1912 - 342 pages
...express 105 himself wittily on the subject of hanging, for, as he said, " Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully." In like manner, in the true conservative spirit, he inveighed against the abolition of the good old... | |
 | Eric Russell Watson - Law - 1913 - 274 pages
..."condemned hole"; but, as was said by Sir Oracle at a rather later time, " Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." On Saturday, at ten o'clock, he wrote as follows, apparently to Mr. Collins : — Sm, I thank you much... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - Authors, English 18th century Biography - 1920 - 246 pages
...to you that it was not Dodd's own because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than anything known to be his you answered, ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " Johnson, however,... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - Authors, English 18th century Biography - 1920 - 248 pages
...to you that it was not Dodd's own because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than anything known to be his you answered, ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " Johnson, however,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - Authorship - 1926 - 236 pages
...it had more force of mind than anything known to be his. Johnson said, " Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Thinking for your life is good thinking. I The thing to aim at in ordinary prose is the Middle Diction.... | |
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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. 
