 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
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 страници
...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 honour Thurlow, Sir; Tliarlow is a fine fellow ; he fairly puts his mind to yours." 2 After repeating to him some of his... | |
 | John Baker Opdycke - 1917 - 370 страници
...agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. — Bacon. 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. — Dr. Johnson. Sheridan, in his acute, sarcastic... | |
 | Josephine Turck Baker - 1921 - 72 страници
...of one of the extracts in my list of quotations relevant to our subject, "The Art of Conversation." "It is when you come close to a man in conversation that you discover what his real abilities are. ' ' One might add, and what they are not. She. — And I suppose that the line suggested the thought... | |
 | John Steven Watson - 1960 - 668 страници
...ready judgement. Dr. Johnson admitted that he liked to prepare for a conversation with Thurlow for 'I honour Thurlow, Sir; Thurlow is a fine fellow, he fairly puts his mind to yours'. Thurlow's mind, in conversation or debate, was brought alongside others to fire in a broadside which... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 страници
...her Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, "it fretted him" (JM, I, 116). Boswell reports the following remark: "Depend upon it. Sir, it is when you come close to...conversation that you discover what his real abilities are" (Life, Iv, 1-9). Johnson believed in the public, educational responsibilities associated with... | |
 | Samuel MacClintock - 1925 - 822 страници
...on Self -Express ton] Speech is power : speech is to persuade, to convict, to compel. — Emerson. Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to...man in conversation that you discover what his real ambitions are; to make a speech in public assembly is a knack. — Dr. Johnson. According to Solomon,... | |
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