...affirmed. The feeling of the English ministry was apparently the same as Doctor Johnson's, who said, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." 1767, November 20, a tax was laid on glass, painters' colors,...

...between them. In his version of the case, Johnson declared the colonists to be " a race of convicts, who ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them, short of hanging." Wesley's own recollections of Georgia were much to the same purpose ; therefore it is not to be wondered...

...was quite in harmony with his calmer judgment. "Sir," he said of the Americans, as early as 1769, '' they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them, short of hanging." Their resistance, in his opinion, argued the basest ingratitude....

...was quite in harmony with his calmer judgment. " Sir," he said of the Americans, as early as 1769, '' they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them, short of hanging." Their resistance, in his opinion, argued the basest ingratitude....

...fellow-subjects in America. For as early as 1769,1 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,...

...subjects in America. As a proof of this, Dr. Campbell asserts that as early as 1769 he said of them : "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be...thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging." Thus, too, he burst out into a violent declamation against the Corsicans, of whose heroism Boswell...

...1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, ' Sir, they are a race of convicts 3, 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 opinion4,...

...wholesale opinions, and pretty harsh ones, about us Americans, and did not soften them in expression : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." We smile complacently when we read this outburst, which Mr....

...wholesale opinions, and pretty harsh ones, about us Americans, and did not soften them in expression : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." We smile complacently when we read this outburst, which Mr....

...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 anything we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had...