...you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members,...prodigious labour which he had undertaken to execute. The publick has had, from Sir John Hawkins ', a long detail of what had been done in this country by...

...you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members,...prodigious labour which he had undertaken to execute. The publick has had, from Sir John Hawkins \ a long detail of what had been done in this country by...

...Dictionary. " Sir," said Johnson, " thus it is: tin* is the proportion; let me see — forty :iine< forty are sixteen hundred; as three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman toa Frenchman." Whilst his Dictionary was in progress, he formed a Rterary club, which met once a week,...

...do this in three years ? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members,...prodigious labour which he had undertaken to execute. The public has had, from another pen(i), a long detail of what had been done in this country by prior...

...you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But like a serpent?" " But," said I, " Johnson is the...in his cradle." I dined with Dr. Johnson at General The publick has had, from Sir John Hawkins4, a long detail of what had been done in this country by...

...took forty members of the French Academy forty years to accomplish the task. " Sir," said Johnson, " thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see, forty times forty is sixteen hundred ; so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman" — a remark which is improper, even in jest,...

...you do this in three years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years. ADAMS. But the French Academy, which consists of forty members,...prodigious labour which he had undertaken to execute. The publick has hail, from Sir John Hawkins-1, a long detail of what had been done m this country by...

...of Cork. He publuhed several works, but i &« only original one of any note Is his " Life of Swift," wljich he had undertaken to execute. The public has had, from another pen4, a long detail of what had...

...this stupendous undertaking. " But, sir," inquired Dr. Adams, "how can you do this in three years ? The French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to complete their dictionary. " " Sir, thus it is," replied Johnson ; " this is the proportion. Let me...

...Johnson, in which the latter asserts that he could finish his Dictionary in three years. " ADAMS. ' But the French Academy, which consists of forty members,...Let me see : forty times forty is sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman.' " No one of the numerous editors of Boswell...