| New York Public Library - 1914 - 616 pages
...and Americans" — what, you wonder, did Dr. Johnson think of them? You look it up: "Sir," said he, "they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging! And again: "I am willing to love all mankind — except an... | |
| James Boswell - 1916 - 370 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 anything we allow them short of hanging." On Friday, March 24, I met him at the Literary Club, where... | |
| Albert William Mann - 1917 - 610 pages
...celebrated moralist, Dr. Johnson, probably represented quite a class, when he said of the Americans, "They are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." England at that period had been engaged in a series of long... | |
| James Boswell - 1923 - 372 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... | |
| William Lyon Phelps - 1923 - 210 pages
...common understanding." We know that Johnson had no great 34 admiration for Americans, for he remarked, "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." But in so general a condemnation, why this special tribute... | |
| Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 170 pages
...sting a noble animal, but it yet remains a fly. I am willing to love all mankind except an American; they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we do to them short of hanging. Miss MORE. Dr. Johnson, I am going to ask if you will oblige... | |
| Ralph Leslie Rusk - 1925 - 482 pages
...people of the older states. Boswell reports that as early as 1769 Johnson had said of the Americans: "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be...thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging" (Boswell' s Life of Johnson, ed. GB Hill, 1891, II, 356-357). As for the romantic fiction of the felicity... | |
| 1926 - 720 pages
...almost as strong. "Sir," shouted the doctor one day, antedating the charge now made by Mr. Fortescue, " they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." "How is it," he asked again, "that we hear the loudest yelps... | |
| George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1927 - 882 pages
...which was in full blast when he arrived. His view of the colonists was somewhat that of Dr. Johnson — "Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Cresswell's one object during most of his stay was to conceal... | |
| Abram Lipsky - 1928 - 336 pages
...American Colonies." The views expressed in the pamphlet may be summarized in Johnson's famous sentence "Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Forty thousand copies of Wesley's abridgment were sold, and... | |
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