 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...ADAMS. But, sir, how can you do this in three years ? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | 1821 - 372 pages
...this in three years ?" JOHNSON. " Sir, I have no donbt that I can do it in three years." ADAMS. " Bert the French Academy, which consists of forty members,...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 398 pages
...ADAMS. But, sir, how can you do this in three years ? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which...is the proportion. Let me see : forty times forty ia sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years ? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 pages
...ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years ? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...ADAMS. But, sir, how can you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he' talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 442 pages
...ADAMS. But, sir, how can you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which...compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This i Birch, MSS. Brit. Mus. 4303. is the proportion. Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred.... | |
 | George Moir - 1827 - 466 pages
..." But, sir, how can you do this in three years ?" Johnson. " Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years." Adams. " But the French Academy,...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...ADAMS: But, Sir, how can you do this in three years? Jamison : Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS : But the French Academy, which...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...ADAMS : But, Sir, how can you dn this in three years? JOHNSON : Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS : But the French Academy, which...is the proportion. Let me see ; forty times forty ia sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman."... | |
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ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years ? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. 
