 Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.  The life of Samuel Johnson - Page 571by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1791 - 608 pages
...might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man...in London all that life can afford." To obviate his apprehenfion, that by fettling in London I might defert the feat of my anceftors, I aflured him, that... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...might gooff, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man...his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man...his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pages
..." Why, Sir, you find no man at all intellectual who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a mau is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there...obviate his apprehension, that by settling in London 1 might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 458 pages
...might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man...his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 910 pages
...might go off", and I mightgrowtired of it." Johnson. " Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man...his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man...his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm;... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man...his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man...his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I assured him that I had old feudal principles to a degree of enthusiasm... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...might go off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man...his apprehension, that by settling in London I might desert the seat of my ancestors, I 1 [" James de Duglas was requested by King Robert Bruce in his last... | |
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