| James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...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,... | |
| W. H. Daniels - 1890 - 846 pages
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...fellow-subjects in America. For, ;if. 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... | |
| 1890 - 720 pages
...edition). 13. — What noted English author applied these words to the rebellious American colonists : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging " ? — Dr. Samuel Johnson (see vol. ii., 1775, in Birbeck... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 428 pages
...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.... | |
| 1892
...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.... | |
| 1896 - 518 pages
...but mass them together and they are terrible indeed." Dr. Johnson said of the Americans in 1769 : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Of the French he says: "What do you expect, dear sir, from... | |
| Robert Neilson Stephens - 1898 - 324 pages
...the assertion of Doctor Johnson, when that great but narrow Englishman said, in 1769, of Americans, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." There came to Harry, now and then, scraps of vague talk of... | |
| Julian Hawthorne - 1898 - 430 pages
...might ask with a halter round their necks"; and the great Samuel Johnson did not scruple to add that "they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Against such intemperate vaporings are to be set the noble... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...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... | |
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