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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. "
Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 398
by Nathan Drake - 1809 - 499 pages
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Branch Library News, Volumes 1-3

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...
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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...
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Walks & Talks about Historic Boston

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...
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Boswell's Johnson: The Life of Samuel Johnson

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...
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Some Makers of American Literature

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...
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Doctor Johnson: A Play

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...
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The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier, Volume 1

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...
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The World's Work, Volume 51

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...
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The Yale Review

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...
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John Wesley: A Portrait

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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