 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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,...JOHNSON. "Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion: let me see—forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 576 pages
...you do this in three years ? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. A HAMS. But 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 pages
...forty years to compile their Dictionary. Johnson replied :— "Sir, thus it is: this is the proportion; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman ! " The laborious work necessary for the production of his great Dictionary, which Dr. Johnson undertook... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 pages
...At one time he had hoped to finish it in three. " Let me see "; he said to his friend Dr. Adams; " forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As " three to...the proportion of " an Englishman to a Frenchman." 1 It was written " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under " the shelter of academic bowers,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...: " But, Sir, how can you do this in three years f" 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 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...the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman."— Boswell's Life, 1747. 22 5. Spunging-houses were victualling houses or taverns, frequently belonging... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 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...hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a French man."—Boswell's Life, 1747. 22 5. Spunging-houses were victualling houses or tavema, frequently... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 584 pages
...ADAMS : But, Sir, how can you do it 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...When, on Johnson's undertaking to finish the Dictionary in three years, Dr. Adams pointed out that ' the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary} he replied : — ' Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see ; forty times forty is sixteen... | |
 | William Andrews - 1898 - 264 pages
...years.' Adams : 'But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to complete their dictionary.' Johnson : ' Sir, thus it is —...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman.' " This pleasantry is not reproduced to show Johnson's vanity, but to give a glimpse of some of the... | |
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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. 
