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Ah, Alcius, I cannot tell whether I should most lament in thee thy want of learning, or thy wanton lyvinge, in the on thou art inferiour to all men, in the other superiour to al beasts. Insomuch as who seeth thy dul wit, and marketh thy froward will, may well say that he neuer saw smacke of learning in thy dooings, nor sparke of relygion in thy life.
JOHNSON. 'They are in the right, Sir: there can be no real conversation, no fair exertion of mind amongst them, if the young men are by; for a man who has a character does not choose to stake it in their presence. BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority? JOHNSON. 'No animated conversation, Sir, for it cannot be but one or other will come off superiour.
Beattie, and some other company. Talking of Lord Chesterfield; JOHNSON. 'His manner was exquisitely elegant, and he had more knowledge than I expected. BOSWELL. 'Did you find, Sir, his conversation to be of a superiour style? JOHNSON. 'Sir, in the conversation which I had with him I had the best right to superiority, for it was upon philology and literature. Lord Eliot, who had travelled at the same time with Mr.
When he thought himself qualified for practice, he fixed his residence in Westminster, became doctor of physick at Cambridge, received a license from the college of physicians, and lived in the first degree of reputation, and the greatest affluence of practice, for many years, without any other enemies than those which he raised by the superiour merit of his conduct, the brighter lustre of his abilities, or his improvements of his science, and his contempt of pernicious methods, supported only by authority, in opposition to sound reason and indubitable experience.
I boldly maintained the just distinction between a tragedian and a mere theatrical droll; between those who rouse our terrour and pity, and those who only make us laugh. Foote, Sir, quatenùs Foote, has powers superiour to them all . On Monday, September 22, when at breakfast, I unguardedly said to Dr. Johnson, 'I wish I saw you and Mrs.
'A new Parliament being now called, I again solicit the honour of being elected for one of your representatives; and solicit it with the greater confidence, as I am not conscious of having neglected my duty, or of having acted otherwise than as becomes the independent representative of independent constituents; superiour to fear, hope, and expectation, who has no private purposes to promote, and whose prosperity is involved in the prosperity of his country.
Beattie, and some other company. Talking of Lord Chesterfield; JOHNSON. 'His manner was exquisitely elegant , and he had more knowledge than I expected. BOSWELL. 'Did you find, Sir, his conversation to be of a superiour style? JOHNSON. 'Sir, in the conversation which I had with him I had the best right to superiority, for it was upon philology and literature. Lord Eliot, who had travelled at the same time with Mr.
Lennox, who is superiour to them all. BOSWELL. 'What! had you them all to yourself, Sir? JOHNSON. 'I had them all as much as they were had; but it might have been better had there been more company there. BOSWELL. 'Might not Mrs. Montagu have been a fourth? JOHNSON. 'Sir, Mrs. Montagu does not make a trade of her wit; but Mrs.
To convince the understanding, and to tickle the fancy, are purposes very different, and must be promoted by different means; nor is he always to imagine himself superiour in the dispute, who is applauded with the loudest laugh.
He thus characterised the Duke of Devonshire , grandfather of the present representative of that very respectable family: 'He was not a man of superiour abilities, but he was a man strictly faithful to his word. If, for instance, he had promised you an acorn, and none had grown that year in his woods, he would not have contented himself with that excuse; he would have sent to Denmark for it.
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