 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 pages
...work, 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 memberSj took forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is : this is the proportion.... | |
 | A. Edward Newton - 1923 - 168 pages
...well, — but I sadly underestimated the time. It has taken me eight years. Mr. BOSWELL. But, sir, the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their dictionary. Dr. JOHNSON. [Smiling.] Then, sir, this is the proportion. Let me see, forty times forty is sixteen... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 170 pages
...of forty members, took forty years to compile their dictionary. Dr. JOHNSON. [Smiling.] Then, sir, this is the proportion. Let me see, forty times forty is sixteen hundred; as eight is to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman. Mr. BOSWELL. I hope,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 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 consists of forty members, took fojty years to compile their Dictionary." JOHNSON. "Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 170 pages
...[Smiling.] Then, sir, this is the proportion. Let me see, forty times forty is sixteen hundred; as eight is to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman. Mr. BOSWELL. I hope, sir, it has made you rich. Dr. JOHNSON. Sir, I did not work for money but for... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it 1T ascribe not » ill breeding ™ appearance "as ** although Eng1 But these are trifles. lishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...^earsT^To'HNSONlIS^Il have no doubt thatTTcan do it in three years. AbAM's . "Bur IheTfeTicTrAcademy , y as if not paid before. But if the while I think...friend, All losses are restor'd and sorrows end. With so much easelmbT pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labor which he had undertaken to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1928 - 564 pages
...Johnson. " Sir, 1 have no doubt I can do it in three years." Adams. " But the French Academy, whicli consists of forty members, took forty years to compile...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... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1928 - 438 pages
...Dictionary, replied, "This, then, is the proportion: forty times forty is sixteen hundred; as three is to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." But it took him, in fact, seven years: when he first began his labors he was living in Holborn, but... | |
 | 1924 - 880 pages
...taken forty years to accomplish what Johnson proposed to do by himself in three, the Doctor answered: 'Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred....is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman' — another Boythorn outburst which only a pedant would censure. Like most interesting people, Johnson... | |
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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. 
