 | William Henry Burnham - 1924 - 792 pages
...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...not certain which) should constantly make the first active movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture; for I have, upon innumerable... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. aTleast so as that "either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certa:n point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,)... | |
 | William Henry Burnham - 1924 - 736 pages
...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...not certain which) should constantly make the first active movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture ; for I have, upon innumerable... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...He was so prone to superstition, that Mr Boswel relates, he made it a rule, that a particular foot should constantly make the first actual movement, when he came close to the threshold of any door or passage * This was more affected than real. BISHOP PERCY. which he was about... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 pages
...only when his obliviousness is less complete, as in another wellknown passage where Boswell describes "his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage,...by a certain number of steps from a certain point": "I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with... | |
 | David B. Cohen - 1995 - 372 pages
...Boswell describes some real eccentricities. One was Johnson's superstitious habit of anxiously taking "care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain...least so as that either his right or his left foot . . . should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door passage. Thus... | |
 | G. E. Berrios - 1996 - 588 pages
...another particularity ... it appeared to me some superstitious habit, which had contracted early . . . this was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...number of steps from a certain point, or at least so that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly make the first actual... | |
 | James F. Leckman, Donald J. Cohen - 1998 - 606 pages
...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...least so as that either his right or his left foot . . . should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. —... | |
 | Padmal De Silva, Stanley Rachman - 1998 - 156 pages
...which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door...least so as that either his right or his left foot (1 am not certain which) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the... | |
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... him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so... 
