 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
...they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, " Nay, don't go." " Sir," (said I), " Í am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow...answered, " Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me." — James Boswell. Sf S» RUTH! Where is truth but in the soul itself? Facts, objects, are but phantoms,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...when they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, " Nay, don't go." " Sir," (said I), " I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow...pleased with this compliment, which I sincerely paid him,and answered, " Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me." — James Boswell. sRUTH! Where is... | |
 | 1864 - 626 pages
...religious melancholy and the interest in religious subjects, which their importance may well justify : "Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary...from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend, the poet Smart, showed the disturbance of his mind by falling on his knees and praying in the street,... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pages
...and when they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, "Nay, don't go." "Sir," said I, "I am afraid GALE MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My...'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being showed the disturbance of his mind by falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street,... | |
 | William Allan Neilson, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1924 - 500 pages
...when they went away, I also rose ; but he said to me, " Nay, don't go." — "Sir (said I), I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow...answered, "Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me." JAMES BOSWELL Boswell often made himself ridiculous through his curiosity and vanity, and suffered... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...when they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, "Nay, don't go."—"Sir, (said I), I am afraid Limtoc the General, Lalcon the Chamberlain, and 1...report resulted in the impeachment of Bolingbroke When I rose a second time, he again pressed me to stay, which I did. He told me, that he generally... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...when they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, "Nay, don't go." — "Sir," said I, "I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow...answered, "Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me." . . . When I rose a second time, he again pressed me to stay, which I did. . . . Before we parted,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pages
...when they went away, I also rose; but he said to me, "Nay, don't go." — "Sir," said I, "I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow...answered, "Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me." . . . When I rose a second time, he again pressed me to stay, which I did. . . . Before we parted,... | |
 | Lewis Hyde - 1984 - 482 pages
...months but then was confined again, this time probably at Chelsea. Yet Johnson said of Smart's madness: Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary...the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street,... | |
 | Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1988 - 385 pages
...to David and the wondrous product of his insanity, Rejoice in the Lamb). Boswell records as follows: Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary...the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street,... | |
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Sir, (said I,) I am afraid that I intrude upon you. It is benevolent to allow me to sit and hear you." He seemed pleased with this compliment, which I sincerely paid him, and answered, "Sir, I am obliged to any man who visits me. 
