 | C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 страница
...Hoffman (#819) July 22nd, 2000 "I cannot live without books." -Thomas Jefferson (#820) July 23rd, 2000 "I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." -Samuel Johnson (#821) July 24th, 2000 "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that... | |
 | Susan Elizabeth Hough - 2007 - 360 страница
...pertinacious gentleman; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, 'I don't understand you, Sir;' upon which Johnson observed,...but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."' Although the letter reveals that the typewriter, like the typist himself, was aging, it also reveals... | |
 | 1867 - 940 страница
...pertinacious gentleman : his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, ' I don't understand you, sir;' upon which Johnson observed,...but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." " GOLDSMITH : — " ' I protest,' cried Moses, I don't rightly understand the force of your reasoning... | |
 | 1925 - 984 страница
...retorted upon his, " I don't understand you, Sir," with that most famous and devastating of ripostes : " Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." I am not sure that the rhetorical outburst of my cynical author was justified. I am not sure that Johnson... | |
 | Wren & Martin - 434 страница
...time is never found again. The man who yields to the fascination of the gaming-table is . Sir, I have you an argument ; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. The picture its way to the auction-room. Christ his crucifiers. more than three hours at a time. It... | |
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Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman ; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say, " I don't understand you, Sir ; " upon which Johnson observed, " Sir, I have found you an argument ; but I am... 
