 Why no, Sir. Everybody knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client ; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation : the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar...  Life of Johnson - Page 375by James Boswell - 1904Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pages
...time tail in the Life of Johnson is rather with Boswell's pursuit of Dr. Johnson.' more Modern Plays. more carry the artifice of the bar into the common...to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet1.' Talking of some of the modern plays, he said False Delicacy was totally void of character2.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...dissimulation impair one's honesty ? Is there not some danger that a lawyer may put on the same mask mask in common life, in the intercourse with his friends...tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet." ' Bosweii's Life ofyoiuism, u. 47. Affectation : IT is not folly but pride, not error but deceit, which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...same mask in common life, in the intercourse with his friends ? " JOHNSON. " Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client...some of the modern plays, he said, " False Delicacy " l was totally void of character. He praised Goldsmith's " Good-natured Man ; " said it was the best... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...cause is bad, but to say all you can for S îur client, and then hear the judge's opinion." OSWELL : " But, Sir, does not affecting a warmth when you have...for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble So the Prologue appeared in "The Public Advertiser," the theatrical gazette of thiit day, soon after... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 412 pages
...telling what is not true,' iii. 364; ' Poisoning the sources of eternal truth,' v. 47. TUMBLING. ' Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the...is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue tu tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet,' ii. 54. Tl'RN. ' He had no turn to economy... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...mask in common iife, in the intercourse with his triends ?" " Why, net, sir," replied the doctor : " a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into...paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to do so when he should walk on his feet." On the other hand, Horace Smith, himself a member of the legal... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...same mask in common life, in the intercourse with his friends ?" " Why, no, sir," replied the doctor : r, and the deceased opened one of her eyes and shut...thrust out the ring- or marriage-finger three several do so when he should walk on his feet." On the other hand, Horace Smith, himself a member of the legal... | |
 | James Paterson - 1896 - 808 pages
...cause is bad, but to say all you can for your client, and then hear the judge's opinion." JJoswell. " But, sir, does not affecting a warmth when you have...for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble unon his hands when he should walk upon his feet." A CLIENT ENTITLED TO HAVE HIS VIEWS PUT IN THE BEST... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 610 pages
...therefore, properly no dissimulation ; the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behavior. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the...tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet." — BoswtlFs Life. GETTING RID OF CANT. BOSWELL: "I wish much to be in Parliament, sir.'' — JOHNSON:... | |
 | Amédée Louis Ulysse Gasquet - 1898 - 126 pages
...therefore, properly no dissimulation ; the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behavior. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the...tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet." (1 Life of Johnson by Boswell, p. 426). In raising expectations of clients for victory and have them... | |
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