 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." JOHNSON. "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — " Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows hie is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." JOHNSON. "Sir, as Dodd got... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — Why should you think »o ? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be banged in a fortnight, it concentrate» hi* mind wonderfully." Johnson, Sir, ая Dodd got it from... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 458 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered,—-' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " JOHNSON.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — 'Why should you...upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged iir a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " JOHNSON. " Sir, as Dodd got it from me to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered,—' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " JOHNSON.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any thing known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' " JOHNSON.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...thing known to be; his, you answered j — 'Why should you think so? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."' JOHNSON. "Sir, as Do(fd got it from me to pass as his own, while thai could do him any good, that waN an implied promise... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any think known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so? Depend upon it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.'" JOHNSON. "... | |
 | John Jaques - 1843 - 426 pages
...general style, " Why should you think so?" observed Johnson ; "depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows that he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." " In one point of view," says Sir Philip Francis's advocate, " it seems unfortunate that the Letters... | |
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 
