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" I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it. "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the ... - Page 460
by James Boswell - 1799
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...fociety. He infifted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit. Smart as any one elfe. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no paffion for it." • *f Mankind have a great averfion to intellectual labour ; but even Juppofing knowledge...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Wilkie. Dodsley. Shaw ...

1795 - 1334 pages
...focicty. He infifted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray • 4rcart as jay one elfe. ' Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have ': ib» twlaochcly flat«, his family (for he had now two children), muft have been much cmba• ø...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....intellectual labour ; but even supposing knowledge to he easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'da* lief pray with Kit Smn.-t as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not...be easily attainable, more people would be content tu be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. " The morality of an action depends...
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Johnsoniana..

James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." Talking of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself. JOHNSON. " It was owing to...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...noxions to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Sinn.-t as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not...linen; and I have no passion for it." — Johnson continned. " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 16

1821 - 372 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." Talking of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself. JOHNSON. " It was owing to...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1824 - 454 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....no passion for it."— Johnson continued. "Mankind had a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easy attainable, more...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. With copious notes by Malone

James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him j and I'd as lief pray with Kit "Smart as any one else....passion for it." — Johnson continued. " Mankind had a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easy attainable, more...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd àÿ ing, as to make Carleret a dactyl. — In matters of genealogy it is n dij not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." Johnson continued. " Mankind had a great...
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