| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other'.' When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...mischief ; you make brothers and sisters hate each other1.' When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end ou't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and si&ters hate each other." " Johnson's opinion of the most proper course to be pursued iti the instruction... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 484 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation, and comparisons of...skill in physick, in consequence of which he is often con* suited by the poor. There were several here waiting for him as patients. We walked round the house... | |
| John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." " Johnson's opinion of the most proper course to be pursued in the instruction of youth is ascertained... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped — and gets his task .—and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation, and comparisons of...mischief: you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire, who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...wipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation and compa:isons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting...mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably sdi behaved, owing to their... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...terminates in itself. A child is afrai<l of being whipped — and gets his task —and there's an end on't ; whereas, by exciting emulation, and comparisons of...mischief: you make brothers and sisters hate each other." When Johnson saw some young ladies in Lincolnshire, who were remarkably well behaved, owing to their... | |
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