Frases de James Boswell
James Boswell
Fecha de nacimiento: 29. Octubre 1740
Fecha de muerte: 19. Mayo 1795
James Boswell, noveno Laird Auchinleck fue un abogado, y escritor escocés, conocido sobre todo por su biografía de Samuel Johnson.
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político argentinoFrases James Boswell
„As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.“
— James Boswell
Quoting Samuel Johnson (19 August 1773)
„My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.“
— James Boswell
The lord was James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, (21 August 1773)
See similar debate in Angel.
„Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.“
— James Boswell
(25 April 1778)
„I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.“
— James Boswell
Quoting Samuel Johnson (16 August 1773)
„Boswell is pleasant and gay,
For frolic by nature designed;
He heedlessly rattles away
When company is to his mind.“
— James Boswell
In a poem about himself, in "Biographic Sketches" in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal Vol. IV (1836). p. 341
„He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.“
— James Boswell
Comment on Samuel Johnson's treatment of Thomas Sheridan (16 October 1769)
„Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.“
— James Boswell
Quoting Samuel Johnson (18 August 1773)
„I jumped up on the benches, roared out, "Damn you, you rascals!", hissed and was in the greatest rage. [... ] I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn.“
— James Boswell
On an occasion of mocking a pair of Highland officers, circa 1672, as attributed by Ruaridh Nicoll, "As a Scot, I hate this idea of a neutered nation" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/apr/22/scotland.devolution, The Observer, 22 April 2007
„What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.“
— James Boswell
Spoken by Samuel Foote about a "law-Lord" (1783)
„[... ] I observed he [Samuel Johnson] poured a large quantity of it [wine] into a glass, and swallowed it greedily. Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.“
— James Boswell
(March 1781)
