 My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be...  Once Upon a Time - Página 79por Charles Knight - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 páginas
...his trial yet and nobody reads Bossuet.1" It will not surprise us that Rousseau excited his contempt. "I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society. ... I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 páginas
...JOHNSON. 'Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men, a rascal, who...ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been' " (II.u). Boswell's cosmopolitanism is at this point a kind of innocence, for he fails to discern in... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 2005 - 586 páginas
...Boswell's hero, Samuel Johnson, would have opposed a friendship with Rousseau. Johnson declared roundly, "I think him one of the worst of men, a rascal who...is a shame that he is protected in this country." Seeking advice on where to live, Rousseau received numerous suggestions, but they kept falling through.... | |
 | 162 páginas
...— " Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men ; a rascal, who...is a shame that he is protected in this country." BOSWELL — " I don't deny, Sir, but that his novel may perhaps do harm ; but I cannot think his intention... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 páginas
...JOHNSON. " Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who...four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame he is protected in this country." BOSWELL. " I don't deny, Sir, but that his novel may, perhaps do... | |
 | 1898 - 406 páginas
...when he was asked by Boswell whether he really thought Rousseau a bad man: 'If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men, a rascal who...four nations have expelled him, and it is a shame he is protected in this country.' But Johnson was a bigot, Gray a recluse, and even Burke had his limitations.... | |
 | René Wellek - 1978 - 768 páginas
...a forest.« 113. Tour of the Hebrides, 14. Oktober 1773; Boswell, j, 311. 114. Boswell, 2, 11—12: »I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society ... I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from... | |
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