| Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pagina’s
...be happy if they miss their counterparts. To be sure not, Sir. I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor. Ibid., II, 461. SIR, it is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage,... | |
| Michael Walzer - 2008 - 366 pagina’s
...can't be redistributed. It might be true, as Samuel Johnson once said, that "Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor." 1 But no one has seriously proposed extending the Lord Chancellor's power in this way, not even for... | |
| Michael Walzer - 2008 - 366 pagina’s
...can't be redistributed. It might be true, as Samuel Johnson once said, that "Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor."1 But no one has seriously proposed extending the Lord Chancellor's power in this way,... | |
| Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 pagina’s
...writing two hundred years later, could still express the conviction that 'marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made...by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter'.4 The doctrine... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pagina’s
...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 2121 Boswell - Life Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made...by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter. 2122 Boswell - Life... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 5089 Boswell - Life Marriages would in general an ` consideratlon of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.... | |
| Frank Pittman - 1999 - 316 pagina’s
...who was right about most things, was quoted by Boswell in 1776: "I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made...by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter." I regularly... | |
| Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pagina’s
...Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)21 March I 7™f>; d. Shenstone 71 s:f> 1 1 Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the I^ord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pagina’s
...the outside, one man's like another. As Dr. Johnson remarked, "I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made...by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter." The herb represents... | |
| Bharat Tandon - 2003 - 320 pagina’s
...counterparts?' JOHNSON: 'To be sure not Sir. I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and even more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.'60 That Johnson... | |
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