 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...happened to be now in London, supped with me at these chambers. JOHNSON. " Pity is not natural toman. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel....Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.1 We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...my uncle Dr. Bosweil, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these chambers. JOHNSON. " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. 2 We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...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....acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. 1 We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...chambers. JOHNSON : ' Pity is not natural to man. Children are always eruel. Savages are always eruel. ܁\ x, T | `t AI sceing a ereature in distress, without pity: for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When... | |
 | Frances Power Cobbe - Future life - 1874 - 310 pages
...repeated female births have followed those when the infants have been drowned ; that is, man loves to slay what Heaven loves to beget, and those perish...may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in dison witnessing the pleasures, feastings and marriages of others, seem usually to partake of the character... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...indicate the duty even of barren compassion, by inclining us to weep for evils which we cannot remedy. Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...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....Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.1 We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...little a creature as man. To Boswell, who was afraid he put into his journal too many little incidents. Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. There is nothing more likely to betray a man into absurdity than condescension, — when he seems to... | |
 | John Lockwood Kipling - Animals - 1891 - 476 pages
...often missing from Eastern stories of the half-Divine. CHAPTER VIII OF HORSES AND MULES "Johnson. — "Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acqidred and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 526 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....cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations for seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.... | |
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Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. 
