 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...since. Sir, your levellers wish to level doten as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling vp to themselves. They would all have some people under...have some people above them ?" I mentioned a certain author who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | Flowers - 1829 - 340 pages
...be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' She has never liked me since this proposal. Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." When ihe learned professions were talked of — " Scorn," said he, " to put your behaviour under the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levelleis 1 [Sec ante, p. 74, note. — ED.] wish to level down...would all have some people under them ; why not then Lave some people above them ?" I mentioned a certain authour1 who disgusted me by his forwardness,... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...Macaulay, whose levelling reveries he complimented with an acute and unanswerable refutation — "Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they...under them ; why not then have some people above them" (Boswell's Life, Ann. 1763, yEtat. 54.). When therefore the possessors of rank and dignity, add fuel... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...nothing to lose, is to level all ranks to their own condition. " Your levellers," observed Dr. Johnson, " wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." It is then a low feeling of self-interest which stimulates one man to obtain, if he can, what belongs... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers , and catched one of them. We had a saddle with us,...upon it, and a straw halter was put on its head. Dr. authour 5 who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by showing no deference to noblemen into whose company... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...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...have some people above them ?" I mentioned a certain author ('-') who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to (1) This " one Mrs.... | |
 | 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 - 610 pages
...truth, their passion for equality 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. In... | |
 | 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 - 606 pages
...truth, their passion for equality 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. In... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...for equality is that so admirably stated by Dr. Johnson:—' Sir, your levellers wish to level dmni 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. In... | |
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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... 
