 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...unfavourably than he had done the Scotch, he answered, with strong pointed doubleedged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are...PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another." Johnson told me of an instance of Scottish nationality, which made a very unfavourable impression upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...unfavourably than he had done the Scotch, he answered, with strong pointed double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason, to be afraid of me. The Irish...PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another." Johnson told me of an instance of Scottish nationality, which made a very unfavourable impression upon... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...more unfavourably than he had done the Scotch; he answered, with strong double-edged ' w.it, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are...fair people; they never speak well of one another." No. XII. LIFE. DINING at the Mitre, Boswell attempted to argue for the superior happiness of the savage... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 542 pages
...done the Scotch, he answered, with strong pointed double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to he afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to...PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another.." Johnson told me of an instance of Scottish nationality, which made a very unfavourable impression upon... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...country more unfavourably than he had done the Scotch ; he answered, with strong double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are...merits of their countrymen. No, sir; the Irish are & fair people; they never speak well of one another." No. XII. LIFE, DINING at the Mitre, Boswell attempted... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 pages
...unfavourably than he had done the Scotch, he answered, with strong pointed double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are...PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another." Johnson told me of an instance of Scottish nationality, which made a very unfavourable impression upon... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...country more unfavourably than he had done the Scotch; he answered, with strong double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are...countrymen. No, sir; the Irish are a fair people; they iiever speak well of one another." No. XII. LIFE. DINING at the Mitre, Boswell attempted to argne for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...unfavourably than he had done the Scotch, he answered, with strong pointed double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are...merits of their countrymen. No, sir; the Irish are a PAIR PEOPLE ;—they never speak well of one another." Johnson told me of an instance of Scottish nationality,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 472 pages
...unfavourably than he had done the Scotch, he answered, with strong pointed double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are...PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another." Johnson told me of an instance of Scottish nationality, which made a very unfavourable impression upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 474 pages
...unfavourably than he had done the Scotch, he answered, with strong pointed double-edged wit, " Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the VOL. II. U world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir; the Irish are... | |
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Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir ; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another. 
