 | Addison Peale Russell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 416 pages
...your own house.' Had Dr. Johnson forgotten this among Bacon's Apothegms when he told Mrs. Macaulay, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking....mankind are upon an equal footing, and to give you an unquestionable proof, madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen,... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...town, a great republican. One day, when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your...convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; ajid to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...house.' 1 Had Dr. Johnson forgotten this among Bacon's ' Apothegms ' when he told Mrs. Macaulay, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking....mankind are upon an equal footing, and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen,... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your...mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an imquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen,... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 pages
...fools ; the wise men will do us no harm.' Equality. — ' Madam,' said Dr. Johnson to Mrs. Macaulay, ' I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all men are upon an equal footing, and to give you an unquestionable proof that I am in earnest, here is... | |
 | Gustave H. Doret - 1883 - 172 pages
...great republican. One day, when I was at her house, I put on (4) a very grave countenance, and said to her, " Madam, I am now become a convert to your...mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest (5), here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...town, a great republican. One day, when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her : ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your...mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your...mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow... | |
 | James Macaulay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 164 pages
...men. One day at her house, which was a resort of literary persons, Johnson said, "'Madam, I am now a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are on an equal footing. To convince you that I am in earnest, there is your footman, a very sensible,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your...mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen,... | |
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One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam,... 
