 | James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 394 pages
...behave to me, were I a nobleman and he Sam. Johnson. Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house,...civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity... | |
 | James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 390 pages
...behave to me, were I a nobleman and he Sam. Johnson. Sir, there Is one Mrs. Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house,...convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mank1nd are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest,... | |
 | Stephen R. L. Clark - Philosophy - 2000 - 352 pages
...oppression. Samuel Johnson's barbed comment is unfortunately apt: One day when I was at [Mrs Macaulay's] house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said...sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your footman; I desire that he may he allowed to sit down and dine with us.' . . . She has never liked me since.... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - Authors, English - 2005 - 321 pages
...behave to me, were I a nobleman and he Sam. Johnson. Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house,...civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity... | |
 | Arthur H. Cash - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 496 pages
...Johnson disapproved of Mrs. Macaulay's republicanism. "One day when I was at her house," he told Boswell, "I put on a very grave countenance and said to her,...civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity... | |
 | 1905 - 314 pages
...sieve." On the question of social equality he said : " Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay, in this town, a great republican. One day, when I was at her house,...sensible civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 544 pages
...the same personage who afterwards made herself so much known as " the celebrated female historian." countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am now become...sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity... | |
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Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your... 
