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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. "
British Almanac and Family Cyclopaedia - Page 3
1850
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Literary Byways

William Andrews - 1898 - 266 pages
...the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to complete their dictionary.1 Johnson : ' Sir, thus it is — this is the proportion....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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The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1900 - 636 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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: To which is Added The Journal of a ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
..." But, Sir, how can you do this in three years ?" JOHNSON : " Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it s BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON 43 to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman."...
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Life of Johnson: Edited, with Introduction

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 pages
...naturally thought of Juvenal as a model. (See Index, "Juvenal," and Johnson's Ideals, § i, p. xx.) which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary." Johnson replied: " Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see ; forty times forty is sixteen hundred....
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Life of Johnson, Volumes 1-2

James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it them, the pain will be so far abated, that they will...like violent pain of body, must be severely felt.' With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to...
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Napoleon's Notes on English History: Made on the Eve of the ..., Volume 41

Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - 1905 - 400 pages
...effect in three years the equivalent of forty years' 1 work of the whole French Academy. "Sir, there it is. This is the proportion. Let me see ; forty...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." The verdict of history has inverted this ratio of value in the persons of Napoleon and Dr. Johnson...
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Sir Joshua and His Circle, Volume 1

Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1906 - 374 pages
...Academy which consisted of forty members, took forty years to compile their dictionary, Johnson replied: "This is the proportion. Let me see, forty times forty...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." An important event in his career now happened. His tragedy named " Irene " had long ago been finished,...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...Dictionary, he playfully used himself as an example : ' Johnson. " Sir, I have no doubt I can do it in three years." Adams. " But the French Academy,...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman"' (Life 1. 186). 104. In 1746 Hogarth in his picture of the March to Finchley showed the demoralization...
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The Development of the Dictionary of the English Language: With Special ...

Frank H. Vizetelly - 1915 - 56 pages
...its forty members, took forty years to complete its dictionary. "Thus it is, sir," replied Johnson; "this is the proportion. Let me see — forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three is to sixteen hundred so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." This waggish spirit often...
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1916 - 370 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 labor which he had undertaken to...
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