 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1912 - 316 pagina’s
...I thus attempted to palliate what could not be justified." " My dear friend," said the great man, " never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice. The woman's a , and there's an end on't." The unseemly word Bozzy, incredible as it may seem, sets down in its naked... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 pagina’s
...ill-treatment, left her husband and attached herself to some one else, and Johnson summed up thus : " My dear Sir, never accustom your mind to mingle virtue...vice. The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't." There is an air of finality about that which defies argument. We know, too, how Foote conquered Johnson... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 pagina’s
...ill-treatment, left her husband and attached herself to some one else, and Johnson summed up thus : " My dear Sir, never accustom your mind to mingle virtue...vice. The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't." There is an air of finality about that which defies argument. We know, too, how Foote conquered Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pagina’s
...I thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could not be justified; for when I had finished my harangue, my venerable friend gave me a proper check...vice. The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't." "Goldy" I dined with him this day at the house of my friends, Messieurs Edward and Charles Dilly, booksellers... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne, Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 248 pagina’s
...Targum. "A paraphrase on the Pentateuch in the Chaldee language. " Johnson's Dictionary. p. 74, /. 13. "My dear Sir, never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice." Boswell, Life (Hill, n, 427). P' 75, '• 3- ° new Ethicks, ed. 1 . p. 75, /. 6. Pompey's pillar.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne, Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 248 pagina’s
...Targum. "A paraphrase on the Pentateuch in the Chaldee language. " Johnson's Dictionary. p. 74, /. 13. "My dear Sir, never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice." Boswell, Life (Hill, n, 427). P" 75, '. 3- a new Ethicks, ed. i. p. 75, /. 6. Pompey's pillar. A red... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pagina’s
...thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could not be justified ; for when I had finished my harangue, my venerable friend gave me a proper check...never accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice. vThe woman's a whore, and there's an end on't." He described the father of one of his friends thus... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1928 - 266 pagina’s
...of Beauclerk's marriage to the divorced wife of another man, and say to Boswell, who defended it: " My dear Sir, never accustom your mind to mingle virtue...and vice. The woman's a whore, and there's an end on 't." But none the less he could dine with Beauclerk and Lady Di as cheerfully as he could dine with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pagina’s
...justified; for, when I had Diana Beauclerk. Bonrell Papers, vi. 132.~ ' [Tophun Beauclerk. A.] fmished my harangue, my venerable friend gave me a proper check:...accustom your mind to mingle virtue and vice. The woman 'sa whore, and there's an end on't.' He described the fatheri of one of his friends thus: 'Sir,... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 pagina’s
...thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could not be justified; for, when I had finished my harangue, my venerable friend gave me a proper check:...vice. The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't'" (Life, n, 247). And there is the even better-known story of Johnson answering Boswell on the truth... | |
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... and that the gentleman on whose account she was divorced had gained her heart while thus unhappily situated. Seduced, perhaps, by the charms of the lady in question, I thus attempted to palliate what I was sensible could not be justified ; for when... 
