 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagine
...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." Although I had promised myself a great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pagine
...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...I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to adesart." JOHNSON. " Sir, you have desart enough in Scotland," Although I had promised myself a great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 500 pagine
...say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now eit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." BOSWELL. " The...have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert." JOHNSON. " Sir, yon have desert enough in Scotland." Although I had promised myself a great... | |
 | 1905 - 408 pagine
...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...it, which is the cause of all the other advantages." V It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London ; Johnson. " Nay, sir, any man... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 pagine
...the great and good man which they esteemed and ever will esteem him to be. .Etat. 60] LONDON LIFE 345 BOSWELL : " Sometimes I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert." JOHNSON : " Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland." Although I had promised myself a great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...been in it. 1 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." 1 His Lordship having frequently spoken... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 pagine
...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...I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to adesart." JOHNSON. " Sir, you have desart enough in Scotland." Although I had promised myself a great... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 400 pagine
...been in it. I'll 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." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place."... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 406 pagine
...been in it. I'll 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." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place."... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1912 - 400 pagine
...been in it. I'll 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." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place."... | |
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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... 
