Samuel JohnsonСэмюэл Джонсон
2 passagesотрывков: 2
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
1. Настраивать свой ум выше своих влечений — это и есть смысл воздержания. О нем один из отцов церкви говорит, что это не добродетель, а великое дело добродетели.
1. To set one’s mind above one’s appetites — this is the very meaning of self-restraint. Of it one of the Fathers of the Church says that it is not a virtue, but the great work of virtue.
From The Idler, No. 52 · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“Not a virtue, but the ground-work of virtue” becomes “not a virtue, but the great work of virtue”: the foundation becomes a great deed; “the end of abstinence” becomes “the very meaning of self-restraint.”
Johnson’s own wordsTo set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the ground-work of virtue.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The Idler, No. 52 (14 April 1759), 'Self-denial necessary', The paragraph after the Roman general and his turnips; in The Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. IV (Oxford, 1825).
Close except in one word, which changes the sense. 'Is the end of abstinence' becomes 'is the meaning of abstinence' (смысл воздержания), and 'not a virtue, but the ground-work of virtue' becomes 'not a virtue, but a great work of virtue' (великое дело добродетели): the foundation becomes a great deed. Tolstoy sets the first clause in italics. The Jubilee name index (vol. 42) refers «Джонсон» at vol. 41, p. 200, to Ben Jonson the dramatist; p. 200 carries March 29 (Blackie, entry 7 of the day, is indexed at p. 201). That is the editors' slip, as on December 9 (12-9.4): the passage is Samuel Johnson's, and Tolstoy's «Джонсон» is right. No printable, because of the changed word.
Translation note. The Russian italic is broken only at the dash; it is set here as one span.
4. Последнее прибежище негодяя — патриотизм.
4. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
From James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. · close to the original (more).
Tolstoy’s version, in EnglishThe last refuge of a scoundrel is patriotism.
Johnson’s own wordsPatriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.' But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791), under Friday, 7 April 1775, 1775, "Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company".
Word for word, with the subject moved to the end ("Последнее прибежище негодяя — патриотизм"). Boswell adds at once that Johnson meant "that pretended patriotism which so many... have made a cloak for self-interest", not "a real and generous love of our country"; Tolstoy gives the saying without Boswell's gloss. The Jubilee name index refers «Джонсон» here (vol. 42, p. 332) to Ben Jonson, the dramatist; that is the editors' slip: the saying is Samuel Johnson's, and Tolstoy's «Джонсон» is right. Johnson's own sentence is printed here.
Translation note. Tolstoy kept the author’s words closely, so the author’s own English is printed here (ruling 1); Tolstoy’s Russian, translated, is in the source panel.