| Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 pagine
...leave your native country, recommend yourself to the protection of your CREATOR and REDEEMER." [164] After we came out of the church, we stood talking...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it,—"I refute it thus." This was a stout... | |
| C. S. Lewis - 2004 - 1086 pagine
...remark recorded in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, vol. I, p. 471. On 6 August 1763 Boswell wrote: 'After we came out of the church, we stood talking...doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against... | |
| Mark Blackwell - 2007 - 378 pagine
...Berkeley's "ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter." "I observed," Boswell writes, "that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thtui. ' "2 Yet Boswell's... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 544 pagine
...going to leave your native country, recommend yourself to the protection of your CREATOR and REDEEMER." After we came out of the church, we stood talking...with which Johnson answered striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus. This was a stout... | |
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