 He had another particularity, of which none of his friends ever ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to me some superstitious habit which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 227by Dugald Stewart - 1814Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to me some superstitious habit, which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason...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 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... | |
 | Ivy Lilian McClelland - 1991 - 164 pages
...I, p. 301. Boswell thought of it as '. . . some superstitious habit which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him'. 9 Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy (London: John Lehmann, 1949). 10 See Vicent Peset,... | |
 | 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
...ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to me some superstitious habit, which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason...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
...ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to be some superstitious habit, which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason...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... | |
 | Stella Waterhouse - 2000 - 392 pages
...avoided the cracks of the paving stones, taking, as Boswell said: . . .anxious care to go in or out at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps...point, or at least so as that either his right or left foot (I am not sure which), should constantly make the first actual movement. (Boswell 1969, p.342)... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...had another particularity,' added Boswell, some superstitious habit, which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason...point, or at least so as that either his right or left foot (I am not certain which), should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - 352 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... | |
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