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" I thus, sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She . has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 159
1836
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them ; why not then have some people above them ?' I mentioned...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them ?" I mentioned...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them ; why not then have some people above them ?' I mentioned...
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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them ?" A certain author...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them : why not then have some people above them ?" 1 mentioned...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 56

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 pages
...equality is that so admirably stated by Dr. Johnson : — • Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling...wife reclaims her husband, and restores La Paix du Menage by the (not very delicate) stratagem of obtaining from an admirer of her own — by some simulated...
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Remarks on a pamphlet [by E. Paley] lately circulated in the ..., Volume 1

James Everett - 1812 - 138 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not, then, have some people above them?— Suppose...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them ; why not then have some people above them ?" I mentioned...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level dawn as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them ; why not then have some people above them ?" A certain...
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Johnsoniana..

James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves-; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them ; why not then have some people above them ?" Boswell mentioned...
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