| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...Pray, sir, had you ever thought of it i " JOHNSON. " 1'had not, sir." From this pleasing subject, he, I know not how or why, made a sudden transition to...into horrid fire, he " breathed out threatenings and slaughter3;" calling them "rascals, robbers, pirates; " and exclaiming, he 'd " burn and destroy them."... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...Pray, sir, had you ever thought of it ? " JOHNSON. " I had not, sir." From this pleasing subject, he, I know not how or why, made a .sudden transition to...he said, " I am willing to love all mankind, except on American;" and his inflammable corruption bursting into horrid fire, he " breathed out threatenings... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 442 pages
...Pray, Sir, had you ever thought of it? " JOHNSON. " I had not, Sir." From this pleasing subject, he, I know not how or why, made a sudden transition to...and exclaiming, he'd "burn and destroy them." Miss Seward, looking to him with mild but steady astonishment, said, " Sir, this is an instance that we... | |
| John Fletcher - Slavery - 1852 - 656 pages
...Dilly's, he said, " I am willing to love all mankind, except an American;" whereupon, adds his biographer, "he breathed out threatenings and slaughter, calling...pirates, and exclaiming, he'd burn and destroy them." Some knowledge of a man's peculiar notions relevant to a subject will often aid the mind in a proper... | |
| John Fletcher - History - 1852 - 666 pages
...drivers of negroes." Not long after he wrote this argument, on the occasion of a dinner-party at Dilly's, he said, "I am willing to love all mankind, except an American;" whereupon, adds his biographer, "he breathed out threatenings and slaughter, calling them rascals,... | |
| John Fletcher - Slavery - 1852 - 650 pages
...drivers of negroes." Not long after he wrote this argument, on the occasion of a dinner-party at Billy's, he said, " I am willing to love all mankind, except an American;" whereupon, adds his biographer, " he breathed out threatenings and slaughter, calling them rascals,... | |
| John Fletcher - Slavery - 1852 - 712 pages
...drivers of negroes." Not long after he wrote this argument, on the occasion of a dinner-party at Billy's, he said, " I am willing to love all mankind, except an American;" whereupon, adds his biographer, "he breathed out threatenings and slaughter, calling them rascals,... | |
| Tammany Society, or Columbian Order (New York, N.Y.) - 1863 - 318 pages
...we can give them. I am willing to love all mankind except an American." Continues the biographer, " his inflammable corruption bursting into horrid fire he breathed out threatenings and slaughters, calling them rascals, robbers, pirates, and exclaiming he'd burn and destroy them." Will... | |
| James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...he chanced to say, "I am willing to love all mankind except an American." Instantly, says Boswell, " his inflammable corruption bursting into horrid fire,...pirates, and exclaiming he'd burn and destroy them." The lady gave him a mild but cutting rebuke. "Sir," said she, "this is an instance that we are always... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...Pray, sir, had you ever thought of it?' JOHNSON: 'I had not, sir.' From this pleasing subject, he, I know not how or why, made a sudden transition to...said, ' I am willing to love all mankind, except an American;9 anil his inflammable corruption bursting into horrid fire, he 'breathed out threatening... | |
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