 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...shall suffer them to do it corporeally, if they can find a tree to do it upon." When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Being in company with one who thought fit to maintain Berkeley's ingenious philosophy that nothing... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...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...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...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...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 492 pages
...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." ' JOtfrNSON. 'Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 544 pages
...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...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an impl1ed promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 464 pages
...to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his...Sir, as Dodd got it from me to pass as his own, while chat could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I Ihould not own it. To own it, therefore,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...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...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...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
...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...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 548 pages
...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...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
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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. 
