| James Boswell - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 928
...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr John Campbell, that he had said of them, " ediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity ; no p anything we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had... | |
| Frederick John Snell - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...that his views were erroneous. Johnson's own views were the reverse of moderate. " Sir," said he, " they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." That was exactly the attitude of Lord North, and, in a treatise... | |
| Frederick John Snell - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...that his views were erroneous. Johnson's own views were the reverse of moderate. " Sir," said he, " they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." That was exactly the attitude of Lord North, and, in a treatise... | |
| Norman Hapgood - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...was soon in a mood that Dr. Johnson had enjoyed as early as 1769, when he said of the Americans, l " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allowed them short of hanging." Johnson also remarked, " I am willing to love all mankind,... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 1590
...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, ' king of a London life, he said, ' The happiness of...London 1 His Lordship having frequently spoken in an a Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion,... | |
| J. Edward Kirbye - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...white servant or slave. Dr. Samuel Johnson of England said at one time in reference to America, "Why, they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." While this may be considered an irate remark, yet it expresses... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...only the quarrel of two robbers for the spoil of a passenger.' " In 1769 he said of the Americans : ' Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be...thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.' " And in > Taxation no Tyranny, near end. * Life 3. 200. 'Life 3. 202. * Lett. 1. 210. 1775 he wrote... | |
| James Boswell - 1852
...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 176t), I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...usual dislike of America, repeating the old error. In speaking of the rebellious colonists, he says: "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Temple Classics, Vol. Ill,... | |
| 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...his passions and his prejudices. No love for the Americans. In 1769, just before our revolution : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." He called the poet Gray of the Elegy a dull fellow. Don Quixote... | |
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