| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, 'Follow me, and dethrone the Czar'; a man \vould be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the impression...you see the utmost extremity of human misery: such crowding, such filth, such stench!" BOSWELL: "Yet sailors are happy." JOHNSON: "They are happy as brutes... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...'Follow me, and dethrone the Cswr'; 9 man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the impression is i universal: yet it is strange. As to the sailor, when...look down from the quarter-deck to the space below, yon see the utmost extremity of human misery: such crowding, such filth, such stench!" BOSWELL: "Yet... | |
| James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 390 pages
...and hear a lecture on philosophy'; and Charles, laying his hand on his sword, to say, 'Follow me, and dethrone the Czar'; a man would be ashamed to follow...Sir, the impression is universal; yet it is strange But, Sir, the profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. Mankind reverences those... | |
| James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 394 pages
...philosophy'; and Charles, laying his hand on hi> sword, to >ay, 'Follow me, and dethrone the Czar'ia man would be ashamed to follow Socrates. Sir, the impression is universal; yet it is strange But, Sir, the profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. Mankind reverences those... | |
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