 | James Boswell - 1852
...been in it. 1 will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest...have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert." JOHNSON : " Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland." 1 His Lordship having frequently spoken... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 602 페이지
...been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest...I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to adesart." JOHNSON. " Sir, you have desart enough in Scotland." Although I had promised myself a great... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 400 페이지
...been in it. I'll venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place."... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 406 페이지
...been in it. I'll venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place."... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1912 - 400 페이지
...been in it. I'll venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place."... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 페이지
...solemnity of a vow, and even had a taste for the solitude of a hermit : ' Sometimes,' he exclaims, ' I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desert.' His gust for London was the same gust for sensation ; and his pursuit of distinguished men... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1915 - 332 페이지
...Johnson 1 to a group of friends, ' there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit than in all the rest of the Kingdom;' and once, when the boasting fit was on him, he asserted that the company sitting with him round the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 페이지
...miles from where we now 1769l ON SECOND MARRIAGES 161 sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.' j BOSWELL. ' The only disadvantage is the great distance...is the cause of all the other advantages.' BOSWELL. FlSbmetimes I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desart.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, you have desart... | |
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Talking of a London life, he said: " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the... 
