 | Lore Holzhausen Liebenam (Frau) - 1928 - 152 pàgines
...beschämt:1) „I do indeed come from Sco'tland, but I cannot help i t", worauf ihm Johnson erwiderte: „That, Sir,. I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." Der Aufenthalt in Edinburgh, als dem Mittelpunkt schottischer Kultur, war für Boswell stets unangenehm.... | |
 | Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson - 1987 - 364 pàgines
...understatement of insults: (33) Boswell: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it ... Johnson: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help. and the understatement of accepting an offer: (34) A: Have another drink. B: I don't mind if I do.... | |
 | Dieter Kastovsky - 1994 - 522 pàgines
...seeing a worse England. c) Boswell: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it. Johnson: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help. (The Oxford Book of Quotations [3rd edition 1979, revised 1985] References a. Dictionaries and word... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 pàgines
...Johnson, I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it', only to receive the crushing retort, 'That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help' (Life, i, 392). Now, in Edinburgh, it seems as though Boswell is handed a golden opportunity to replay... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 pàgines
...Scotland, but I cannot help it.' . . . [Johnson replies, punning on the expression "come from Scotland,"] 'That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.'" Life of Johnson l :3gz. 28 briefly. With the exception of their four-month walking tour of the Scottish... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 pàgines
...his accent, was a Scot. 'Mr Johnson,' said I, T do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.' That, Sir, I find is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.''1 This first exchange between the future biographer and his subject set the tone for many of... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 pàgines
...expression 'come from Scotland', which I used in the sense of being of that country; and as if I had said that I had come away from it or left it, retorted,...apprehensive of what might come next. He then addressed himselt to Davies: 'What do you think of Garrick? He has refused me an order for the play for Miss... | |
 | 152 pàgines
...expression "come from Scotland," which I used in the sense of being of that country, and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted,...embarrassed and apprehensive of what might come next. JAMES BOSWELL, Life of Dr Johnson. 139.** AN IMAGINARY CONVERSATION. HOME. I hope, sir, our mountains... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1909 - 714 pàgines
...expression " come from Scotland," which I used in the sense of being of that country, and, as if I had said that I had come away from it or left it, retorted, "That, sir, I find, is what a very great number of your countrymen cannot help. . . " 2. SBeantirorten <5te auf (Snglifcty jnjei con ben folgenben... | |
 | 1904 - 314 pàgines
...sooner had it passed Boswell's lips, than the sage let fly one of his " facers " with the remark, " That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." Boswell says : " This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down I felt myself not a... | |
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That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help. 
