 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 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 - 1831 - 602 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 - 1831 - 600 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... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...Dictionary. " Sir," said Johnson, " thus it is: tin* is the proportion; let me see — forty :iine< forty are sixteen hundred; as three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman toa Frenchman." Whilst his Dictionary was in progress, he formed a Rterary club, which met once a week,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 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 - 1835 - 604 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... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pages
...took forty members of the French Academy forty years to accomplish the task. " Sir," said Johnson, " thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see, forty times forty is sixteen hundred ; so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman" — a remark which is improper, even in jest,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 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 - 1848 - 1798 pages
...of Cork. He publuhed several works, but i &« only original one of any note Is his " Life of Swift," consists of forty members, took forty years to compile...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour wljich he had undertaken to... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1867 - 340 pages
...this stupendous undertaking. " But, sir," inquired Dr. Adams, "how can you do this in three years ? The French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to complete their dictionary. " " Sir, thus it is," replied Johnson ; " this is the proportion. Let me... | |
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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. 
