 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 oldal
...him ; but what can he do better ? If I had money enough, what would I do ? Perhaps, if you and master did not hold me, I might go to Cairo, and down the...this be better than building and planting ? It would surely give more variety to the eye, and more amplitude to the mind. Half fourteen thousand would send... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 oldal
...enough, what would I do ? Perhaps, if you and master did not hold me, I might go to Cairo, and duwn the Red Sea to Bengal, and take a ramble in India....this be better than building and planting? It would surely give more variety to the eye and more amplitude to the mind. Half fourteen thousand would send... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 oldal
...Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale : — ' If I had money enough, what would I do ? Perhaps, if you and master did not hold me, I might go to Cairo, and down the Red Sea to Bengal, and to India. Would this be better than building and planting ? It wouj^ ^^^jgive more variety to the eye,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 496 oldal
...him ; but what can he do better ? If I had money enough, what would I do? Perhaps, if you and master did not hold me, I might go to Cairo, and down the...this be better than building and planting ? It would surely give more variety to the eye, and more amplitude to the mind. Half fourteen thousand would send... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 492 oldal
...Bengal, and take a ramble in India '. Would this be better than building and planting? It would surely give more variety to the eye, and more amplitude to the mind. Half fourteen thousand would send me out to see other forms of existence, and bring me back to describe them ". I... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1899 - 324 oldal
...Whitbread." The rest he likes to hear about, though, for his own part, if he had the money he would prefer to "go to Cairo and down the Red Sea to Bengal, and take a ramble in India." Nothing shows his affection and intimacy more than the frank way in which he asks for what he wants.... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 oldal
...Wales, and then to Paris. When he was sixty-six he wrote to Mrs. Thrale that "Perhaps, if you and Master did not hold me I might go to Cairo, and down the Red Sea to Bengal, and take a ramble in India. Half fourteen thousand [the profits of Thrale's brewery that year] would send me out to see other forms... | |
 | Thomas M. Curley - 1998 - 728 oldal
...and future fame. Passage to India If I had money enough, what would I do. Perhaps, if You and Master did not hold me I might go to Cairo, and down the...this be better than building and planting. It would surely give more variety to the eye, and more amplitude to the mind. Half fourteen thousand would send... | |
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If I had money enough, what would I do? Perhaps, if you and master did not hold me, I might go to Cairo, and down the Red Sea to Bengal, and take a ramble in India. Would this be better than building and planting ? It would surely give more variety to... 
