| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pàgines
...behaviour, would frequently call him the great boy, which the father once overhearing said :—' You call him the great boy, but take my word for it, he will one day prove a great man.' Hawkins's Johnson, p. 6. • See post, March 22, 1776 and Johnson's visit to Birmingham in Nov.... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pàgines
...behaviour, would frequently call him the great boy, which the father once overhearing said:—• You call him the great boy, but take my word for it, he will one day prove a great man.' Hawkins's Johnson, p. 6. 1 See post, March 22, 1776 and Johnson's visit to Birmingham in Nov.... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pàgines
...behaviour, would frequently call him the great boy, which the father once overhearing said :— ' You call him the great boy, but take my word for it, he will one day prove a great man.' Hawkins's Johnson, p. 6. 2 See post, March 22, 1776 and Johnson's visit to Birmingham in Nov.... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 542 pàgines
...Johnson's funeral. Letters ii. 434. G 1 the the great boy, which the father once overhearing, said, 'you call him the great boy, but take my word for it, he will one day prove a great man '.' A more particular character of him while a schoolboy, and of his behaviour at school, I find... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 pàgines
...Johnson's funeral. Letters ii. 434. G 2 the the great boy, which the father once overhearing, said, 'you call him the great boy, but take my word for it, he will one day prove a great man'.' A more particular character of him while a schoolboy, and of his behaviour at school, I find... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 532 pàgines
...Johnson's funeral. Letters ii. 434. 2 the the great boy, which the father once overhearing, said, 'you call him the great boy, but take my word for it, he will one day prove a great man '.' A more particular character of him while a schoolboy, and of his behaviour at school, I find... | |
| Aleyn Lyell Reade - 1922 - 232 pàgines
...his behaviour, would frequently call him the great boy, which the father once overhearing, said, "You call him the great boy, but take my word for it, he will one day prove a great man." J Hawkins is not quite accurate here, for the Rev. George Butt— father of Mrs. Sherwood, of... | |
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