 | Brimfield (Mass. : Town) - 1879 - 590 oldal
...affirmed. The feeling of the English ministry was apparently the same as Doctor Johnson's, who said, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." 1767, November 20, a tax was laid on glass, painters' colors,... | |
 | W. H. Daniels - 1880 - 804 oldal
...between them. In his version of the case, Johnson declared the colonists to be " a race of convicts, who ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them, short of hanging." Wesley's own recollections of Georgia were much to the same purpose ; therefore it is not to be wondered... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1881 - 864 oldal
...was quite in harmony with his calmer judgment. "Sir," he said of the Americans, as early as 1769, '' they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them, short of hanging." Their resistance, in his opinion, argued the basest ingratitude.... | |
 | 1881 - 868 oldal
...was quite in harmony with his calmer judgment. " Sir," he said of the Americans, as early as 1769, '' they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them, short of hanging." Their resistance, in his opinion, argued the basest ingratitude.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 oldal
...fellow-subjects in America. For as early as 1769,1 was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be...thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 oldal
...subjects in America. As a proof of this, Dr. Campbell asserts that as early as 1769 he said of them : "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be...thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging." Thus, too, he burst out into a violent declamation against the Corsicans, of whose heroism Boswell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 500 oldal
...1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, ' Sir, they are a race of convicts 3, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.' Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion4,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 342 oldal
...wholesale opinions, and pretty harsh ones, about us Americans, and did not soften them in expression : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." We smile complacently when we read this outburst, which Mr.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1888 - 410 oldal
...wholesale opinions, and pretty harsh ones, about us Americans, and did not soften them in expression : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." We smile complacently when we read this outburst, which Mr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 oldal
...subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had... | |
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging. 
