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" not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why. Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." Sir David Dalrymple, now one... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides - Page 136
by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker - 1851 - 874 pages
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell - 1785 - 546 pages
...applicable to Dr. Johnfon himfdf. Mr. Murray, advocate, who married a niece of Lord Mansfield's, and is now one of the Judges of Scotland, by the title of Lord Henderland, fat with us a part of the evening; but did not venture to fay any thing, that I remember,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...applicable to Dr. Johnson himself. Mr. Murray, advocate, who married a niece of Lord Mansfield's, and is now one of the judges of Scotland, by the title of Lord Hcnderland, sat with us a part of the evening; but did not venture to say any thing, that I remember,...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1786 - 478 pages
...applicable to Dr. Johnfon himfelf. * Mr. Murray, advocate, who married a niece of Lord Mansfield's and is now one of the Judges of Scotland, by the title of Lord Henderland, fat with us a part of the evemng; but did not venture to fay any thing, that I remember,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pages
...Troy was not taken by the Greeks was the very familiar lines (JEn. ii. 197)— Mansfield's, and is now one of the judges of Scotland, by the title of Lord Henderland, sat with us a part of the evening; but did not venture to say any thing that I remember,...
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Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pages
...fellow does not think as he fpeaks he is lying; and I fee not what honour he can propofe to himfelf from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no diftinclion between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houfes, let us count our fpoons....
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...virtue and vice. JOHNSON. ' Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying; and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a lyar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...virtue and vice. JOHNSON. ' Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying; and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a lyar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when...
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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...virtue and vice.—J. " Why, Sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks he is lying; and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having...when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons. There is (said he) in human nature a general inclination to make people stare; and every wise man has...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pages
...applicable to Dr. Johnson himself.* Mr. Murray, advocate, who married a niece of Lord Mansfield's, and is now one of the Judges of Scotland, by the title of Lord Henderland, sat with us a part of the evening ; but did not venture to say any thing, that I remember,...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pages
...applicable to Dr. Johnson himself.* Mr. Murray, advocate, who married a niece of Lord Mansfield's, and is now one of the Judges of Scotland, by the title of Lord Henderland, sat with us a part of the evening ; but did not venture to say any thing, that I remember,...
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