 ... 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
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
...But let us come to what may be called Dr. Johnson's superstitions. It was his care to go in or out 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 (it was not known which,) should constantly make... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...contracted early, aud 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 454 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 - 1858 - 482 pages
...early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxiors 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 - 1860 - 496 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 - 1860 - 960 pages
...memory : — " A udlet clTcs acculile ferrimi Quo graves Pcrg& melius périrent, Audict pugnas ..." 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... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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 ain not certain which) should constantly... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 712 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...stretch out and then convulsively draw back his leg. His biographer relates that it ' was his constant anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, ... so as that either his right or his left foot should constantly make the first actual movement;... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...stretch out and then convulsively draw back his leg. His biographer relates that it ' was his constant anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, ... so as that either his right or his left foot should constantly make the first actual movement;... | |
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