 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 Seiten
...is given grudgingly in closely calculated return for the fixed wage. "Sir," exclaimed Dr. Johnson, " 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 axiom is not the less valuable because it was so often neglected by him who enunciated... | |
 | 1875 - 562 Seiten
...overwhelming numbers, and amid the thunder of French cannon Borne was forced to receive back her exiled pope. 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. Johnson. FKBEUABT,] ALDEN'S OXFORD MAGAZINE. [1876. " "•' ilili • : • I [ I I' ^ •.... | |
 | Boys - 1880 - 362 Seiten
...fetch some trifling article that his sister requires, is simply selfish. Said Dr. Johnson : — " 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." In fact, some words are worse than blows ! An admirable instance of unselfishness is related... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 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.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 Seiten
...long since, as good as renounced it." Samuel Johnson in his rough, strong way puts it forcibly : — " 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." But the sullenness which shows itself by looks is as bad as the hot temper which finds expression... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 Seiten
...of men — that " spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries of life." — SMILES. 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. JOHNSON. Incivility is the extreme of pride ; it is built on the contempt of mankind... | |
 | - 1881 - 854 Seiten
...thyself guilty of diabolism" — said on a certain occasion : " Sir, a man has no more right to »ay an uncivil thing than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. One of the redeeming points in Sheridan'e character was that, though thriftless and intemperate,... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 Seiten
...remarked, " Yon must not indulge your delicacy too much, or you will be a tete-d-tete man all your life." 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. Depend upon it, that, if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that... | |
 | 1882 - 514 Seiten
...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...right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." Sidney Smith, the witty Edinburg Reviewer and Parson, says: '•'•Manners are the shadows... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 442 Seiten
...views on this subject. He once remarked, "A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than he has to act one, — no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." Were this view to be reduced to general practice, the change in domestic, social, and business... | |
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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. 
