 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...Welch gentleman who has published a collection of Welch proverbs, who will help me with the Welch. ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years...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 pages
...Welch gentleman who has published a collection of Welch proverbs, who will help me with the Welch'. ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years...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 - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...Welch gentleman who has published a collection of Welch proverbs, who will help me with the Welch*. ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years?...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 - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...Welch gentleman who has published a collection of Welch proverbs, who will help me with the Welch. ADAMS. But, Sir, how can you do this in three years...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 pages
...JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. 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 and pleasantry could he talk ofthat prodigious labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...Welsh gentleman who has published a collection of Welsh proverbs, who will help me with the Welsh." ADAMS. " But, sir, how can you do this in three years...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 - Authors, English - 1820 - 372 pages
...gentleman who has published a collection of Welsh proverbs, who will help me with the Welsh." ARAMS. " But, sir, how can you do this in three years ?" JOHNSON....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 - 442 pages
...consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thns it it. This is the proportion. Let me see : forty times forty...is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry could he talk ofthat prodigions labour which he had undertaken to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...Welch gentleman who has published a collection of Welch proverbs, who will help me with the Welch. ADAMS. But, sir, how can you do this in three years...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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...this in three years ?" JOHNSON. " Sir, I have no donbt that I can do it in three years." ADAMS. " Bert the French Academy, which consists of forty members,...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... | |
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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. 
