 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 halaman
...would have made many converts, were it not that members notoriously realise the passage in Hudibras, " He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still." It was not long before a situation in the TreaHiry was offered to him ; independently of his *i.sh... | |
 | H. Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 248 halaman
...Sir John Mennes, who wrote in the reign of Charles II. ; and he was indebted to Demosthenes for it. " He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still," from Hudibras, is, in nine cases out of ten, misquoted," " He that's convinced against his will." There... | |
 | John Murray - 1851 - 264 halaman
...sagacious to indite such a contradiction in terms : and accordingly in the original the passage reads: — He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still. A peculiar liability to mistake in our estimate of ancient popular authors may arise from the circumstance... | |
 | John Murray (A.M.) - 1852 - 276 halaman
...sagacious to indite such a contradiction in terms : and accordingly in the original the passage reads: — He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still. A peculiar liability to mistake in our estimate of ancient popular authors may arise from the circumstance... | |
 | 1852 - 782 halaman
...of being originally cited from an indistinct and unassisted recollection alone, of the couplet : " He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still." Hudibrtu, Part III. Canto 3. 11. 547-8. There is also a French phrase in very general use, but in a... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 halaman
...Until they 're never to be won : But since I have no other course, But is as bad t' attempt, or worse ; He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still ; Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known ; BSO But 'tis not to b' avoided... | |
 | 1854 - 778 halaman
...death of a person. [The desired quotation is from Butler's Hudibras, part in. canto iii. 1. 547-8. : " He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still." As to the origin of the phrase " To kick the bucket," the tradition among the slang fraternity is,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 312 halaman
...Until they 're never to be won : But since I have no other course, But is as bad t' attempt, or worse ; He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still ; Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known ; 550 But 'tis not to b' avoided... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 410 halaman
...they may profess a change of sentiments, it is always in such a way as to confirm the old distich, that ' He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.' I shall, however, venture to quote one of the numerous stories in circulation among the mahouts. It... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 432 halaman
...they may profess a change of sentiments, it is always in such a way as to confirm the old distich, that 'He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.' I shall, however, venture to quote one of the numerous stories in circulation among the mahouts. It... | |
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