...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he Lad 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...

...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 hurst out into a riolent declamation against the Corsicans, of whose heroism Boswell talked...

...By ROBERT WALSH, Esq. 6vo. London, 1819. [Review, May, 1820.] ' THE Americans,' said Dr. Johnson, ' are a race of convicts, ' and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of ' hanging.' Whatever might be thought of the liberality or the propriety of this anathema at the time when it was...

...America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that Jie had said of theni, " JSir, thc.y 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 t Ik with him ; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion,that...

...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...

...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,...

...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1 769, 1 was'told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, t." JOHNSOS : " Of this performance I avoided to tr.lk with him ; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion,...

...out of Newgate ; and even Dr. Johnson could stoop to utter the malignant remark, that the Americans are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them, short of hanging. — Boswell, vol. 2. And yet the very work, in which the first of these sarcasms is repeated with great...

...out of Newgate ; and even Dr. Johnson could stoop to utter the malignant remark, that the Americans are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them, short of hanging. — Boswell, vol. 2. And yet the very work, in which the first of these sarcasms is repeated with great...

...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,...