...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr John Campbell, that he had said of them, " ediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity ; no p anything we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had...

...that his views were erroneous. Johnson's own views were the reverse of moderate. " Sir," said he, " they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." That was exactly the attitude of Lord North, and, in a treatise...

...that his views were erroneous. Johnson's own views were the reverse of moderate. " Sir," said he, " they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." That was exactly the attitude of Lord North, and, in a treatise...

...was soon in a mood that Dr. Johnson had enjoyed as early as 1769, when he said of the Americans, l " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allowed them short of hanging." Johnson also remarked, " I am willing to love all mankind,...

...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, ' king of a London life, he said, ' The happiness of...London 1 His Lordship having frequently spoken in an a Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion,...

...white servant or slave. Dr. Samuel Johnson of England said at one time in reference to America, "Why, they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." While this may be considered an irate remark, yet it expresses...

...only the quarrel of two robbers for the spoil of a passenger.' " In 1769 he said of the Americans : ' Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be...thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.' " And in > Taxation no Tyranny, near end. * Life 3. 200. 'Life 3. 202. * Lett. 1. 210. 1775 he wrote...

...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 176t), I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had...

...usual dislike of America, repeating the old error. In speaking of the rebellious colonists, he says: "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Temple Classics, Vol. Ill,...

...his passions and his prejudices. No love for the Americans. In 1769, just before our revolution : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." He called the poet Gray of the Elegy a dull fellow. Don Quixote...