 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 Seiten
...alliance to nobler qualities, and accidentally consorted with knowledge or with virtue. INCIVILITY. A MAN has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than...right to say a rude thing to another, than to knock him down. INCOJ^TAJMCY. IRRESOLUTION and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 Seiten
...while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good will. WASHINGTON IRVING. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than...right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. DR. S. JOHNSON. Foppery is never cured : once a coxcomb, and always a coxcomb. DR. S. JOHNSON.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 Seiten
..." spite and illnature are among the most expensive luxuries in life." Dr. Johnson once said: "Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than...right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." A sensible polite person does not assume to be better or wiser or richer than his neighbour.... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 Seiten
...opens all its eyes, And star-beams tremble on the tide. RRV. MATHRR BYLRS, d. 1788. Civility.} CXXXIV. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one, no mo1e right to say a rude thing to another than to knock himJown. DK. S. JOHNSON. Nighl.] CXXXV. How... | |
 | 1877 - 826 Seiten
...vanity that would rather lose a friend than a joke. On this point Dr. Johnson once remarked : ' Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than...right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.' The vain egotism that disregards others is shewn in various unpolite ways ; as, for instance,... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1877 - 112 Seiten
...ordinary minds by experience ; the stupid by necessity ; and brutes by instinct. — Cicero. 16. A man has no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. — Johnson. 17. The short convulsions and stillness that sucLESSON XV. 1. From labor health... | |
 | Oregon - 1878 - 984 Seiten
...moralist, Dr. Johnson, whose precept upon this point is, I fear, better than his example, declares that "A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rud thing to another than to knock him down." Sidney Smith, the witty Edinburg Reviewer and Parson,... | |
 | 1878 - 662 Seiten
...moralist, Dr. Johnson, whose precept upon this point is, I fear, better than his example, declares that "A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rud thing to another than to knock him down." Sidney Smith, the witty Edinburg Reviewer and Parson,... | |
 | 1878 - 496 Seiten
...over * It is not a little odd to find among Johnson's sayings : "Sir, a man has no more right to toy an uncivil thing than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." the formal, priggish periods of Hawkins, could not be provoked from us but by one whom we... | |
 | James Culross - 1879 - 246 Seiten
...of 1 According to Dr. Johnson — who did not always practise what he preached — "A man . . . has no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." place. Equally out of place is mere politeness. But through God's blessing Christian courtesy... | |
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Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. 
