...head, and say you intended to miss him ; but the judge will order you to be hanged. . . . Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence...to settle the proportion of iniquity between them." 22. ROADS AND INNS DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ROADS SOUBCES : Various. a. .Sou KOI : Hervey, Memoirs...

...civilized society as dangerous to the very existence of the established order. "Rousseau," he cried, "is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence...should like to have him work in the plantations." 2 He was a rascal to be hunted out of society; one who knew he was talking nonsense and laughed at...

...or four nations have expelled him, and it is a shame that he is protected in this country. Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence...transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from Old Bayley these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations." — We were the...

...of destruction, his morality was thoroughly bourgeois. At one time he candidly declared: "Rousseau is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence...transportation than that of any felon who has gone forth from the old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations."...

...d'admiration plus remarquable encore ! 2. En réponse à celui-ci qui venait de dire : — « Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation to the colonies than that of any fellow who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should...

...pitiable revelations of baseness, Dr. on expressed his opinion with characteristic vehemence : '"Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a ' sentence...should like to have him work in the plantations.' And though we do not say these refreshingly one-sided things now, most normal Englishmen and not a...

...as for the years before they began, Johnson's dictum about Rousseau may be remembered: " Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence...should like to have him work in the plantations." This can probably be taken as a fair sample of a good part of English opinion. Germany was brought...

...teacher of vice in the garb of virtue, and of whom that austere moralist, Dr. Johnson, said that he would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation than that of any felon who had gone from the Old Bailey. By some he has been regarded as a semi-lunatic philosopher whose crazy...

...contempt. "I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society. ... I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation,...should like to have him work in the plantations." 114 But this is hardly literary criticism, and we must not forget that Johnson was needling Boswell,...

...view of the great prophet of the Revolutionary school. " Rousseau," he said to Boswell's astonishment, "is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence...should like to have him work in the plantations." That is a fine specimen of the good Johnsonese prejudices of which we hear so much ; and, of course,...