James Boswell Quote

I shall always remember the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it — "I refute it thus."


Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson ", 6 August, 1763 (p. 333)


I shall always remember the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from...

I shall always remember the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from...

I shall always remember the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from...

I shall always remember the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from...