 | Lawrence Goldie, Jane Desmarais, Jane Haville Desmarais - Cancer - 2005 - 180 pages
...contained a great deal more force of mind in it than anything known to be his, Dr Johnson responded, 'Why should you think so? Depend upon it Sir, when...be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully'.7 All the soldiers writing hoped that their life would contribute to making the world... | |
 | William Olivier Desmond, Fabrice Antoine - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 160 pages
...le lecteur français de culture moyenne peut comprendre immédiatement. Si on lit, en revanche, "... when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," vous ne saurez peut-être pas que c'est une citation, célèbre en Angleterre, de Samuel Johnson. Vous... | |
 | Peter Kreeft - Religion - 2005 - 244 pages
...quotation of the most quoted man (besides Shakespeare) in English literature, Doctor Johnson, reads: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." (Watch the movie Dead Man Walking with this point in mind, and you may see a serious argument for capital... | |
 | Gavin Cologne-Brookes - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 297 pages
...solutions, where available, are not necessarily desirable. The epigraph (Samuel Johnson's famous dictum that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully") suggests that the fact of death should focus our minds on how to live. The dogged pursuit of insoluble... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - Reference - 2007 - 416 pages
...Boswell, what Johnson said, with reference to the unusually vigorous writing of a condemned forger, was "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Verdict: Credit Samuel Johnson for the thought, and his version of the words. "CONSISTENCY is the hobgoblin... | |
 | William M. Chace - Education - 2009 - 365 pages
...think of my dissertation as a quarry for articles and the basis of a book. As Samuel Johnson said, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." I concentrated my mind. Slotted into those hours not devoted to learning how to teach or how to be... | |
 | Kenneth G. C. Newport, Crawford Gribben - Religion - 2006 - 327 pages
...China 1840-1854; Nazi Germany, 1933-1945), or more lastingly (Ming and Maoist China, Soviet Russia). 56 "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully . . .," Samuel Johnson, quoted by J. Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. GB Hill, revised by LF Powell, iii,... | |
 | Bruce Bongar, Lisa M. Brown, Larry E. Beutler, James N. Breckenridge, Philip G. Zimbardo - Political Science - 2006 - 512 pages
...Park, and Calhoun, 1998). In fact, and without going quite so far as to say with Samuel Johnson that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," there is truth in the saying that the awareness of death causes a reexamination of value systems (Ursano,... | |
 | 124 pages
...need to heal hurts that only mortals feel. - Vasantha Surya, "A Word Between Us" 20. Concentration Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson, (Boswell's Life of Johnson) The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable... | |
 | Sandy Macleod - Holistic medicine - 2007 - 180 pages
...anticipate medication-responsive depression is fundamentally what needs to be determined. Prevalence Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1 784) 14 The current (1 month) prevalence of major depression in national epidemiological... | |
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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. 
