 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...behave to a nobleman as I should expect he would behave to me, were I a nobleman and he Sam. Johnson. as not married till the year after my birth, 1 must have been her natural son." A fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...he Sam. Johnson. Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay * in this town, a great republican. One day when 1 was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance,...earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' I thus,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...behove to a nobleman as I should expect he would behave to me, were I a nobleman and he Sam Johnson. Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay in this town, a great...earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire thai he may be allowed to sit down and dine with ns.' I thus,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1849 - 634 pages
...expect he would behave to me, were I a nobleman, and he Sam Johnson. Sir, there is one Mrs. Macauley in this town, a great republican. One day when I was...earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, wellbehaved citizen, your footman : I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us. — I thus, Sir,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1850 - 648 pages
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 | James Boswell - 1851 - 336 pages
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 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are on an equal footing ; and, to give an unquestionable proof that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.' . . .... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 pages
...one Mrs. Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day, when I was at her house, I put on a veiy grave countenance, and said to her, ' Madam, I am...earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with UK.' I thus,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 600 pages
...I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil,...well-behaved fellow citizen, your footman ; I desire that he maybe allowed to sit down and dine with us." This was the reduction to practice of that saying of Lycurgus... | |
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Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellowcitizen, your... 
