 | Leslie Stephen - 1901 - 214 pages
...in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. vNo, sir, the Irish are a fair people ; they never speak well of one another." There was another difference. He always expressed a generous resentment against the tyranny exercised... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 pages
...declared that the Scotch were always ready to lie on each other's behalf. " The Irish," he said, " are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations...fair people ; they never speak well of one another." There was another difference. He always expressed a generous resentment against the tyranny exercised... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - 546 pages
...bring in some other Scotchman. — Boswell, Life of Johnson. 1773. The Irish are not [like the Scotch] in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merit of their countrymen. No, sir ! the Irish are a. fair people: they never speak well of one another.... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1903 - 360 pages
...respect the Irish shone by comparison. " The Irish," he said, " are not in a conspiracy to cheat Y the world by false representations of the merits of...fair people— they never speak well of one another." When the Irish Dr. Campbell observed that the first professors at Oxford were Irish, " Sir," he replied,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...noster.' N. &* Q. 7 S. xii. 265. 1 Johnson, contrasting the Irish with the Scotch, said:— 'The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations...fair people ; they never speak well of one another.' Boswell's Johnson, ii. 307. • In 1733. Ante, POPE, 176. 3 Johnson's authority is Ayre's Pope, ii.... | |
 | William Winter - 1908 - 440 pages
...those observations, I can but think of the humorous remark of Doctor Johnson. "Sir," said that sage, "the Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another." It ever seemed to me that in temperament Brougham was kindred with the poet Oliver Goldsmith. He had... | |
 | Harry Graham - 1908 - 436 pages
...Bishop's name.1 It was to Dr. Barnard too that Johnson made the celebrated remark to the effect that " the Irish are a fair people ; they never speak well of one another I"* And when the bishop and the crusty old doctor quarrelled in an argument as to whether a man's mental... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...answered, with strong pointed double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations...Johnson told me of an instance of Scottish nationality, whichmade a very unfavourable impression upon his mind. A Scotchman of some consideration in London,... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...sentence surprises, and constitutes a challenge to find out the poet's meaning. Johnson's remark, " The Irish are a fair people ; they never speak well of one another ", is distinctly witty ; the transition is quite unexpected. Scott's simile is witty : " An orator... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 pages
...answered with strong pointed double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations...never speak well of one another." Johnson told me an instance of Scottish nationality, which made a very unfavourable impression upon his mind. A Scotchman,... | |
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Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, sir; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another. 
