 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 pagine
...solemnity of a vow, and even had a taste for the solitude of a hermit : ' Sometimes,' he exclaims, ' I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert.' His gust for London was the same gust for sensation ; and his pursuit of distinguished men... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1915 - 332 pagine
...Johnson 1 to a group of friends, ' 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;' and once, when the boasting fit was on him, he asserted that the company sitting with him round the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 pagine
...miles from where we now 1769l ON SECOND MARRIAGES 161 sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.' j BOSWELL. ' The only disadvantage is the great distance...is the cause of all the other advantages.' BOSWELL. FlSbmetimes I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desart.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, you have desart... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 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." BOSWEI,:L. "Sometimes I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert." JOHNSON. "Sir, you... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 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 of the kingdom." In the estimation of the majority of Town wits and scholars the country in the eighteenth century was... | |
 | Francis Sheppard - 2000 - 500 pagine
...happiness of London is not to he conceived hut hy those who have heen in iL 1 will venture to say that there is more learning and science within the circumference...where we now sit than in all the rest of the kingdom. Dr Samuel lohnson, 1769 'Ooesn't the hest of everything come to Londonl' he would ask, 'and doesn't... | |
 | Victor Sawdon Pritchett - 2001 - 220 pagine
...been in it. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of io miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the Kingdom." Johnson loved the city for its talk. It took place in clubs, especially in The Club which met in Soho.The... | |
 | Richard Tames - 2006 - 332 pagine
...Chapter Five INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL "... there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit than in all the rest of the world. " Dr. Samuel Johnson Dr. Samuel Johnson, outside St. Clement Danes, where he worshipped Type... | |
 | 1953 - 328 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 of the kingdom." He was content to live a life of extreme poverty in London. He eagerly listened to the advice of an... | |
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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... 
