 is that so admirably stated by Dr. Johnson :—' Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.' This great truth was never so strongly exemplified as in the present state of society in France....  Museum of Foreign Literature and Science - Page 30edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...us*." I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them ; why not then have some people above them ?' I mentioned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...us.' I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?" A certain author... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 608 pages
...distinction. In truth, their passion for equality is that so admirably stated by Dr. Johrtson :—' Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves...husband, and restores La Paix du Menage by the (not very delicate) stratagem of obtaining from an admirer of her own—by some simulated compliances—proofs... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1856 - 596 pages
...of Selden, and one of his own most celebrated dicta was borrowed from it. 'Sir,' said he to Boswell, 'your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves...; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them ?' ' This,' said... | |
 | James Everett - 1812 - 138 pages
...us.' I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not, then, have some people above them?—Suppose a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...us.' I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves...; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them ; why not then have some people above them ?" I mentioned... | |
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level dawn as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?" A certain author... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 372 pages
...ns.' I thus, sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them ; why not then have some people above them ?" Boswell mentioned... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...us.' I thus, sir, shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them ?" I mentioned... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...us.' I thus, Sir, shewed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them ? " I mentioned... | |
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