 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. JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see ; forty times forty is sixteen...  The Atlantic Monthly - Página 7861924Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see ; forty times forty is sixteen hundred....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 - 496 páginas
...members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary^ JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see ; forty times forty is sixteen hundred....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 - 640 páginas
...members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see ; forty times forty is sixteen hundred....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 - 1807 - 514 páginas
...members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see ; forty times forty is sixteen hundred....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 páginas
...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 - 1820 - 384 páginas
...took forty years to compile their Dictionary." JOHNSON. " Sir, thus it is ; this is the proportion : let me see — forty times forty is sixteen hundred...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 - 1820 - 442 páginas
...members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary. JOHNSON. Sir, thns it it. This is the proportion. Let me see : forty times forty is sixteen hundred....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 - 1820 - 372 páginas
...took forty years to compile their Dictionary." JOHNSON. " Sir, thus it is ; this is the proportion : let me see — forty times forty is sixteen hundred...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 - 382 páginas
...took forty years to compile their Dictionary." JOHNSON. " Sir, thus it is ; this is the proportion : let me see — forty times forty is sixteen hundred : as three to iixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." With so much ease and pleasantry... | |
 | 1821 - 372 páginas
...took forty years to compile their Dictionary." JOHNSON. " Sir, thus it is ; this is the proportion : let me see — forty times forty is sixteen hundred...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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