...and Americans" — what, you wonder, did Dr. Johnson think of them? You look it up: "Sir," said he, "they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging! And again: "I am willing to love all mankind — except an...

...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, 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." On Friday, March 24, I met him at the Literary Club, where...

...celebrated moralist, Dr. Johnson, probably represented quite a class, when he said of the Americans, "They are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." England at that period had been engaged in a series of long...

...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, 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 any thing we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion that...

...common understanding." We know that Johnson had no great 34 admiration for Americans, for he remarked, "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." But in so general a condemnation, why this special tribute...

...sting a noble animal, but it yet remains a fly. I am willing to love all mankind except an American; they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we do to them short of hanging. Miss MORE. Dr. Johnson, I am going to ask if you will oblige...

...people of the older states. Boswell reports that as early as 1769 Johnson had 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" (Boswell' s Life of Johnson, ed. GB Hill, 1891, II, 356-357). As for the romantic fiction of the felicity...

...almost as strong. "Sir," shouted the doctor one day, antedating the charge now made by Mr. Fortescue, " they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." "How is it," he asked again, "that we hear the loudest yelps...

...which was in full blast when he arrived. His view of the colonists was somewhat that of Dr. Johnson — "Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Cresswell's one object during most of his stay was to conceal...

...American Colonies." The views expressed in the pamphlet may be summarized in Johnson's famous sentence "Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Forty thousand copies of Wesley's abridgment were sold, and...