| Joseph Gibbs - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 244 pages
...1 New York press — seem contradictory or incoherent, belying Samuel Johnson's famous remark that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Hopson began their March 23 session by telling the prisoner that "I expected all he had told me could... | |
| 218 pages
...your brethren. Eventually, each one of us must walk alone with God. "Depend upon it, sir, when a roan knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," said Samuel Johnson. When trials come, when our life seems to be about over, it is time to walk alone... | |
| Jon Elster - Philosophy - 2007 - 422 pages
...can improve the quality of belief formation, by focusing attention and stimulating the imagination. "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," Dr. Johnson said, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Beyond a certain level of arousal, however,... | |
| George Schloss - Religion - 2008 - 405 pages
...be sentenced to our explorations for another three or four centuries. Letter 46 - September 1, 2005 "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." So said Dr. Johnson. And so say we all (or a reasonable facsimile thereof), when "faced", as I've been... | |
| Robert Manne - History - 2008 - 306 pages
...this problem, but it would be a step forward. WAR ON TERROR Martin Krygier According to Dr Johnson, 'when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' Wondering whether you might be attacked by terrorists seems to have similar, if not always wonderful,... | |
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