 This man now has been ten years about town, and has made nothing of it;" meaning as a companion.* He said to me, " I never heard any thing from him in company that was at all striking ; and depend upon it, Sir, it is when you come close to a man in conversation,...  A Book about Lawyers - Страница 287по John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1867 - 432 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 страници
...with a higher opinion of my own merit." More than a year before, he had said, "Depend upon it, Bfr, it is when you come close to a man in conversation that you discover what his real abilities are : to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack. Now I honor Thurlow, sir : Thurlow is a fine... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 страници
...controversial gladiators. He received this high compliment from Dr. Johnson, while yet at the bar : " Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to...conversation, that you discover what his real abilities are : to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack. Now I honour Thurlow, sir ; Thurlow is a fine... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 страници
...companion.1 He said to me, " I never heard anything from him in company that was at all striking ; and depend upon it, Sir, it is when you come close to...conversation, that you discover what his real abilities are: to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack. !Now I honour Thurlow, Sir ; Thurlow is a fine... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 страници
...companion. He said to me, < I never heard any thing from him in company that was at all striking ; and depend upon it, Sir, it is when you come close to a man in conversation * 27 Parl. Hist. 1092. In this speech he says, that, having been calumniated, " he had acted in an... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 страници
...sealed volume to him. "Depend upon it, sir," observed Dr. Johnson, in reference to Lord Loughborough, " it is when you come close to a man in conversation that you discover what his real abilities are ; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack. Now, I honor Thurlow ; Thurlow is a fine fellow... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 416 страници
...argument and brilliant powers of conversation. While yet at the Bar Dr. Johnson said of him to Boswell: "I honour Thurlow, Sir; Thurlow is a fine fellow; he fairly "puts his mind to yours." And after he became Chancellor the same high authority added : "I would prepare myself for "no man... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 страници
...argument and brilliant powers of conversation. While yet at the Bar Dr. Johnson said of him to Boswell: " I honour Thurlow, Sir; Thurlow is a fine " fellow; he fairly puts his mind to yours." And after he became Chancellor the same high authority added: " I " would prepare myself for no man... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 526 страници
..." that you discover what his real abilities are ; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack. I honour Thurlow, sir; Thurlow is a fine fellow; he fairly puts his mind to yours." And on another occasion he said, " I would prepare myself for no man in England but Lord Thurlow. When... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 414 страници
...argument and brilliant powers of conversation. While yet at the Bar Dr. Johnson said of him to Boswell : " I honour Thurlow, Sir ; Thurlow is a fine " fellow ; he fairly puts his mind to yours." And after he became Chancellor the same high authority added : " I " would prepare myself for no man... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 406 страници
...companion. He said to me : ' I never heard anything from him in company that was at all striking ; and depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to...conversation that you discover what his real abilities are ; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack." — Boswell's Johnson. — Campbell's Lives... | |
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