...but, upon the whole, the busy hand of industry seemed to be quite slackened. " Surely, sir," said I, " you are an idle set of people." " Sir," said Johnson,...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." There was at this time a company of players performing at Lichfield. The manager, Mr. Stanton, sent...

...but upon the whole the busy hand of industry seemed to be quite slackened. " Surely, Sir, (said 1,1 you are an idle set of people." " Sir, (said Johnson,)...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." There was at this time a company of players performing at Lichfield. The manager, Mr. Stanton, sent...

...but upon the whole, the busy hand of industry seemed to be quite slackened. " Surely, sir," said I, " you are an idle set of people." "Sir," said Johnson,...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." There was at this time a company of players performing at Lichfield. The manager, Mr. Stanton, sent...

...busy hand of industry seemed to be quite slackened. " Surely, sir," said I, " you are an idle set ot people." "Sir," said Johnson, "we are a city of philosophers;...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." There was at this time a company of players performing at Lichfield. The manager, Mr. Stanton, sent,...

...but upon the whole, the busy hand of industry seemed to be quite slackened. " Surely, Sir," said I, " you are an idle set of people." " Sir," said Johnson,...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." There was at this time a company of players performing at Lichfield. The manager, Mr. Stanton, sent...

...seemed to be quite slackened. " Surely, sir," said I, "you are an idle set of people." " Sir," .^i ill Johnson, "we are a city of philosophers; we work with...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." There was at this time a company of players performing at Lichfield. Tl»e manager, Mr. Stanton, sent...

...but upon the whole, the busy hand of industry seemed to be quite slackened. " Surely, Sir," said I, " you are an idle set of people." " Sir," said Johnson,...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." There was at this time a company of players performing at Lichfield. The manager, Mr. Stanton, sent...

...road ; and to the remark that the inhabitants seemed " an idle set of people," he retorted, " Sir, we are a city of philosophers ; we work with our heads, and make the hoobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." The house in which he was born retains its oldfashioned...

...autocrat of the bar-room told Boswell, who was disparaging the respectable quietness of Lichfield, " Sir, we are a city of philosophers, we work with our heads,...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." The Grammar-School where Johnson, and Addison (who was the son of the Dean of Lichfield), and Garrick...

...whole, that the inhabitants of Lichfield were idle ; lo which Johnson magniloquently replied: — "Sir, we are a city of philosophers; we work with our heads,...boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands." Its name — Leichenfield, or " field of corpses " — is supposed to Christians — Salve magnum Parens."...