| Lore Holzhausen Liebenam (Frau) - 1928 - 152 pągines
...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 pągines
...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.... | |
| James Boswell - 1994 - 450 pągines
...'Mr Johnson,' said I, 'indeed I come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.' 'Sir,' replied he, 'that, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' Mr Johnson is a man of a most dreadful appearance. He is a very big man, is troubled with sore eyes,... | |
| Dieter Kastovsky - 1994 - 522 pągines
...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
...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 pągines
...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... | |
| Peter Martin - 2002 - 644 pągines
...this Very big man' with 'uncouth' voice one of the most famous ripostes ever recorded: 'Sir, that, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' Boswell committed another gaffe by presuming to tell Johnson about Garrick, for which Johnson struck... | |
| Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 pągines
...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... | |
| 152 pągines
...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... | |
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