Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. 'We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pi'ty unless... The Hopes of the Human Race: Hereafter and Here - Page 159by Frances Power Cobbe - 1874 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...uncle Dr. Bofwell, who happened to be now in London, flipped with me at thefe Chambers. JoHNSON. " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reafon. We may have uneafy fenfations from feeing a creature in diftrefs, without pity; for we have... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pi'ty unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. ' Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. ' Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...of the insinuation which made the story be circulated. On another occasion Johnson remarked, "That pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. 1'ity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of retison. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...will then talk about ' cutting out of a corner ? ' At vol. i., p. 451, we read, — ' JOHNSON — " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by...may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to... | |
| John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...of the insinuation which made thi story be circulated. On another occasion Johnson remarked, "That pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling." On another occasion, he said, " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to... | |
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