 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 lehte
...with them a sort of pocket mirror, always ready and in use. — Shaftesbury. CCCCXXII. A man has uo more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rude riling to another, than to knock him down.— Johnson. I ccccxin. -\ CCCCXXIV. Happiness is the perpetual... | |
 | 1857 - 734 lehte
...would not have been obliged at last to stoop so often to pick up the cherries !" IMPUDENCE. You have no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act...say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. — Johnson. THE JtrVENILE REPORTER. THERE is the picture of a girl on the first page of this Messenger,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 226 lehte
...CIVILITY. — Be civil to all men, however humble their station may be. A man has no more right to say1"' an uncivil thing than to act one ; no more right to...say a rude thing to another, than to knock him down. 4. TRUE VENERABLENESS. — Honorable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that which... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1857 - 332 lehte
...pleasing manner. Truth is the picture ; the manner is the frame which displays it to advantage. 21. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one ; no more right to say a disrespectful word to another than to knock him down. 22. He that is truly polite, knows how to contradict... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 lehte
...benefits he derived from conversing with the Sovereign, he placed first among the advantages that he could not be in a passion. His principles were opposed...manners, Johnson stopped him: 'You need say no more; when vou have said a man of gentle manners you have said enough.' He was always anxious after bis outbreaks... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 lehte
...are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. 5. A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than...one; no more right to say a rude thing to another, •ban to knock him down. 6. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 lehte
...protarred hie friend, or made his fortune. Steelf. EDDENE S S— has no L¡ censo. A man has no moro right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one ; no more right to say a rade thing to another, than to knock him I down. Johnson. BOTH1— Overwhelming. Destruction O'ertakes... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 lehte
...concerning Cataline's conspiracy ; so I withdrew my attention, and thought about Tom Thumb." — Croker.] A MAN has no more right to say an uncivil thing than...say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. — Johnson. RICHAHDSON had little conversation, except about his own works, of which Sir Joshua Reynolds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 lehte
...condsceension, when he seems to suppose his understanding too powerful for his company. INCIVILITY. Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than...say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. INTELLIGENT TRANSLATORS. Green and Guthrie, an Irishman and a Scotchman, undertook a translation of... | |
 | John Russell (F.E.I.S.) - 1869 - 176 lehte
...too officious in her behalf that scorns your services." (S.) " Rude am I in speech." (S.) " A man has no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down." (John.) Ex. 89. — Impudence Effrontery Sanciness Impudence, an extreme degree of rudeness, showing... | |
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Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down. 
