 | 1908 - 1066 oldal
...been in it. I will venture to say, there is ^ learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." And those of the Johnson cult can still trace him through the little city of his time, now become only... | |
 | 1871 - 632 oldal
...been in it. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within tho circumference of ten miles from where we now sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." In other conversations at the Mitro we find Johnson condemning Foote's unfeeling fun, advising Boswell... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 oldal
...bcen iu it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest...the other advantages.' BOSWELL: 'Sometimes I have bcen in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert.' JOHNSON: 'Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland.'... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 oldal
...been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest...have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert." — JOHNSON : " Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland." Boswell, being about to marry, was... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 oldal
...been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest...is the great distance at which people live from one another."—JOHNSON : " Yes, Sir; but that is occasioned by the largeness of it, which is the cause... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 oldal
...been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest...is the great distance at which people live from one another."—JOHNSON : " Yes, Sir; but that is occasioned by the largeness of it, which is the cause... | |
 | Benjamin Scott - 1877 - 246 oldal
...his day, " I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit than in all the rest of the Kingdom," what would be his testimony now that the population of that area has trebled, now that the penny post,... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 oldal
...resided in it. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit than in all the rest of the kingdom. The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another. But that is occasioned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 oldal
...been in it. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit than in all the rest of...have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert." JOHNSON. "Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland." Walking one evening in Greenwich Park... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 oldal
...have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circuit of ten miles from where we now sit than in all the rest of...it, which is the cause of all the other advantages." * * * On another occasion he said that " a man stored his mind better there than anywhere else ; and... | |
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Talking of a London life, he said: " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the... 
