 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...Sir, young men have more virtue than old men ; they have more generous fentiments in every refpect. I love the young dogs of this age : they have more...knowledge of life than we had ; but then the dogs are not fo good fchoiars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a fad reflection, but a true one,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...think myfelf growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances muft laft longeft, if they do laft ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old men ; they have more generous fentiments in every relpect. I love the young dogs of this age : they have more wit and humour and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old...the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, .that I knew almost as much at eighteen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...coffee-house over against Catherine Street, now the site of a tourists' ticket office. Athenaum, No. 3041. men ; they have more generous sentiments in every...the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...recollection of early years. [AD 1763. men ; they have more generous sentiments in every respect1. I love the young dogs of this age : they have more...the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old...the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old...the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir. in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as mucli at eighteen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtne than old men ; they have more generons sentiments in every respect. I love the young dogs...the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a trne one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old...the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old...the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen... | |
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Sir, I love the acquaintance of young people ; because, in the first place, I don't like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old men ;... 
