 | 1905 - 556 pàgines
...it'." This, Bos well says, was meant to placate Johnson, and he was therefore taken aback by the reply, "That sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." "That stroke stunned me a good deal," says Boswell with great satisfaction over the stunning. After... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 80 pàgines
...Davies roguishly. ' Mr. Johnson,' said I, ' I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.' He retorted, ' That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' The stroke stunned me a good deal." In this way did Brobdingnag and Lilliput meet; and how this casual... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pàgines
...Davies roguishly. " Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." .... He retorted, "That, Sir, I find is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." ' The President of St. John's College, Oxford, remembers a London merchant named Lindsey, who, on being... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pàgines
...Davies roguishly. " Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, bul I cannot help it." .... He retorted, "That, Sir, I find is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." ' The President of St. John's College, Oxford, remembers a London merchant named Lindsey, who, on being... | |
 | 1898 - 232 pàgines
...Johnson, I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." He received the crushing answer : " That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." [26] Double Meanings A young man from the country lately volunteered his services to escort a young... | |
 | Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 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 many of your country men cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself... | |
 | Edward Marston - 1902 - 184 pàgines
...Doctor. The speech, however, was somewhat unlucky. He seized the expression, " Come from Scotland," and retorted, " That, sir, I find is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This was a stunning stroke for Boswell, and he sat down not a little embarrassed, and apprehensive of what... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 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, 1 find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal... | |
 | 1905 - 548 pàgines
...it'." This, Boswell says, was meant to placate Johnson, and he was therefore taken aback by the reply, "That sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." "That stroke stunned me a good deal," says Boswell with great satisfaction over the stunning. After... | |
 | Thomas Charles Blaisdell - 1906 - 428 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,...a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." . . . He then addressed himself to Davies: "What do you think of Garrick? He has refused me an order... | |
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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 many of your countrymen cannot help«. 
