| James Boswell - 1791 - 564 Seiten
...Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which confifts of forty members, took forty years to compile their...JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me fee ; forty times forty is fixteen hundred. As three to fixteen hundred, fo is the proportion of an... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 Seiten
...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 - 1799 - 496 Seiten
...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 - 1799 - 648 Seiten
...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 - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...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 - 1817 - 466 Seiten
...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...Let me see : forty times forty is sixteen hundred. Ac three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 384 Seiten
..." 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 pica.santry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 372 Seiten
..." 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,...hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to aFrenchman." With, so much, ease and pleasantry could he talk of that prodigious labour which he had... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 382 Seiten
...this in three years ?" JOHNSON. " Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years." ADAMS. " Bat the French Academy, which consists of forty members,...forty times forty is sixteen hundred : as three to iixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 Seiten
...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...forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thns it it. This is the proportion. Let me see : forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to... | |
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