 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pàgines
...thing known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pàgines
...contributed to the deception ; for when Mr. Seward expressed a doubt to you that it was not Dodd'e own, because it had a great deal more force of mind...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pàgines
...would let him escape. He added, that he knew a friend of Dodd's, who walked about Newgate for some time on the evening before the day of his execution,...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pàgines
...any thing known to be his, you answered,—-' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pàgines
...you that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great deal more force of mind in it than any tiling known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you...do him any good, there was an implied promise that 1 should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling a lie, with the addition of breach... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pàgines
...But, Sir, (said I,) you contributed to the deception ; for when Mr. Seward expressed a doubt to ^ou that it was not Dodd's own, because it had a great...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pàgines
...thing known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pàgines
...any thing known to be his, you answered,—' Why should you think so ? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pàgines
...any think known to be his, you answered, — ' Why should you think so? Depend upon it, Sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...pass as his own, while that could do him any good, that was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 pàgines
...thing known to be; his, you answered j — 'Why should you think so? Depend upon it, sir, when any man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."' JOHNSON. "Sir, as Do(fd got it from me to pass as his own, while thai could do him any good, that waN an implied promise... | |
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Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 
