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" Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging. "
Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 398
by Nathan Drake - 1809 - 499 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 5

James Boswell - 1848 - 392 pages
...race of f IC ' , <•• (1) [Published March 7. 1775, by T. Cadell in the Strand.] L 6 7o i c VI 0 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,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1851 - 328 pages
...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...
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Critical and miscellaneous essays, by an octogenarian (J. Roche).

James Roche - 1851 - 624 pages
...language in regard to the Americans, when struggling for their independence, is wholly inexcusable. •' They are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything allowed them short of hanging," were his ungracious words. (Boswell, iii., 327.) But his expressed...
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The Mental and Moral Philosophy of Laughter: A Vista of the Ludicrous Side ...

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 pages
...the United States were struggling for their independence, is a specimen of his general coarseness. " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful that we allow them anything short of hanging." Genuine Bamboo, that ; you can hardly tell, in reading...
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The Presbyterian Quarterly Review, Volume 1

B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1853 - 714 pages
...objection. We yield the same right to Dr. Johnson to say, that " the Americans are a race of convicts, who ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them, short of hanging;" or to the equally well informed reviewer, when he affirms, that " our Adam and Eve emigrated from Newgate!"...
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History of the United States: The American revolution

George Bancroft - 1854 - 560 pages
...their necks." 8 " They are a race of convicts," said the famous moralist, the pensioned Samuel Johnson, "and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging." 4 A Circular letter was sent forthwith to all the Colonies, promising on the part of the Ministry to...
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A History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 6

George Bancroft - 1854 - 562 pages
...their necks." 8 " They are a race of convicts," said the famous moralist, the pensioned Samuel Johnson, "and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging."4 A Circular letter was sent forthwith to all the Colonies, promising on the part of the Ministry...
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Lives of Men of Letters of the Time of George III.

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pages
...abuse, " he'd burn and destroy them."— (Boswell, III. 314.) " Sir," said he on another occasion, " they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging."— (III. 327.) Akin to this were his strong and even intolerant...
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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES VOL. VI

GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 558 pages
...their necks." 3 " They are a race of convicts," said the famous moralist, the pensioned Samuel Johnson, "and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging." 4 A Circular letter was sent forthwith to all the Colonies, promising on the part of the Ministry to...
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A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent ...

George Bancroft - 1857 - 568 pages
...their necks." 8 " They are a race of convicts," said the famous moralist, the pensioned Samuel Johnson, "and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging." 4 A Circular letter was sent forthwith to all the Colonies, promising on the part of the Ministry to...
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