 | Michel L. Balinski, H. Peyton Young - Political Science - 2010 - 214 pages
...method that escapes from the population, new states, and Alabama paradoxes. The Controversy over Bias A man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice . SAMUELJOHNSON In the twentieth century the choice of a method of apportionment engrossed not only... | |
 | Leonard Feinberg - Humor - 2002 - 236 pages
...abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious." Samuel Johnson told Boswell: "Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man can be very sincere in good principles without having good practice?" Biologist Edward Wilson lists... | |
 | Lone Lindholt - Political Science - 2003 - 254 pages
...the meeting and get on with their own lives. This is what Dr. Samuel Johnson meant when he observed that, "A man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice." This is the challenge that must be heeded in committing ourselves to recognising and transforming the... | |
 | Joseph Wiesenfarth - Authors, English - 2005 - 278 pages
...his actions, he simply proves himself a case of the kind that Dr. Johnson described when he remarked that "a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice." 85 Indeed, Ford himself reminds us in Provence of just such a man: According to history the first martyrdom... | |
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M'Aulay passed the evening with us at our inn. When Dr Johnson spoke of people whose principles were good, but whose practice was faulty, Mr M'Aulay said, he had no notion of people being in earnest in their good professions, whose practice was not suitable... 
