 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 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,... | |
 | John Macgregor - 1832 - 526 pages
...that the ministry were governed by feelings similar to those expressed by Dr Johnson, when he said, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be...thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging." proposed by the Earl of Chatham would have saved America ; but the famous bill, which he framed for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 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,... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1836 - 206 pages
...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. ii. And yet the very work, in which the first of these sarcasms is repeated with... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 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 any thing we allow them short of hanging." — (iii. 327.) Akin to this were his strong and even intolerant national prejudices. Of the French... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1846 - 522 pages
...liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. * Belsham, vi. 181,204. t Dr. Johnson said : "The Americans are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging." M'Gregor's America, i. 30. } The only opponent was Mr. Dickinson. " To secure these rights governments... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 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... | |
 | 1847 - 986 pages
...покровительство божс(') Доктор-ь Джонсонъ сказалъ: iTbe Americans are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing -we allow them short of banging. M'Urcgor America. 1.30. ствеппаго Проштдып») ручаемся нашим... | |
 | 1847 - 560 pages
...accordingly read of him, airiIfia\cvvTIv Ofitlpoi, Analecta Veterum Poetarum, a Brunck, tom. ip 233. » " 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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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging. 
