 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - Страниц: 226
..."answered in a passion: 'No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.' He added, with an earnest look, 'A man knows it must be, and submits. It will do him no good to whine.'"11... | |
 | Ann N. Michelini - 2003 - Страниц: 376
...visibly upset, replied, "No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." When Boswell tried to continue the conversation, Johnson became enraged, and his biographer went home... | |
 | David Benatar - 2004 - Страниц: 422
...answered, in a passion, "No, Sir. let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." He added, (with an earnest look,) "A man knows it must be so, and submits. It will do him no good to... | |
 | Thomas Alured Faunce - 2005 - Страниц: 676
...out upon him." "No Sir" answers Dr Johnson "it matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. A man knows it must be so and submits. It will do him no good to whine."180 §i. Literature and life... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 882
...weakness of mortality. " It matters not," says Johnson, " how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance — it lasts so short a time : a man knows it must be so, and submits." Boswell, ii. p. 103. Vol. iii. p. 168, " the better a man... | |
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No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. 
