 ... 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 certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly...  The Monthly Review - Page 3551833Full view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...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 certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...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 certain point, or at ' [See post, 12th Oct. 1773 En.] ' It used to be imagined at Mr. Thrale's, when Johnson retired... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 pages
...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 certain point, or at ' 1 [See post, 12th Oct. 1773 ED.] ; * It used to be imagined at Mr. Thrale's, when Johnson retired... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...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 certain point, or at • [See post, 12th Oct. 1773.— ED.] « It used to be imagined at Mr. Thrale's, when Johnson... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 pages
...existence of ghosts, and the ministering agency of departed spirits. His sentiments on these subjects, though expressed in a work of fiction, are well known...actual movement. Thus, upon innumerable occasions, 1 have seen him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with deep earnestness, and when he... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...Mr. Boswell mentions a very singular and superstitious practice of Dr. Johnson ; which consisted of an " 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 that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...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 certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (1 am not certain which), should constantly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. . This was his or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which), should constantly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...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 certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837 - 510 pages
...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 certain point, or at least so that as either his right or left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly make... | |
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