 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 페이지
...double-edged wit, "Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their...PEOPLE ; — they never speak well of one another." The American Colonies On Tuesday, March 21, I arrived in London; and on repairing to Dr. Johnson's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 836 페이지
...might say of them what Johnson said of the Irish. " The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat iBe world by false representations of the merits of their...people, — they never speak well of one another." Mabel then, as we said, won Lord Charlecote's facile and fickle affections, but won them quite unconsciously.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 페이지
...always get another Irishman to turn him. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer The moment the very name of Ireland is... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 페이지
...Irish author, port, playwright. An Irishman in Coventry. 16 Our day will come. SLOGAN OF THE IRA 1 7 histler's Nocturne in Black and Cold: The Falling Rocket. Oscar Wi SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84), English oulhor, lexicographer. Quoted in: James Boswell, life of Samuel ¡ohnson.feb.... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - 1997 - 484 페이지
...Boswell, who comes across as a rather grave and melancholy figure who still has a love of fun and nonsense ("The Irish are a fair people — they never speak well of one another"). Another is Socrates, as we find him in Plato's dialogues. But the most important of all is the Jesus... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 페이지
...(1804-1881) British statesman, author. Hansard, col. 1016. Speech to House of Commons (Feb. 1 6, 1844). 4 The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Theodor Reik - 2002 - 644 페이지
...of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of their fellow countrymen. No, sir, the Irish are a fair people. They never speak well of one another." He who wants to have a good idea of what people's real feelings are toward each other has only to observe... | |
 | Tim Pat Coogan - 2002 - 788 페이지
...'Somerset Vaughan'. In the Antipodes, as elsewhere, the Irish validate Dr Johnson's judgement that 'the Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another'. THE DOOMED CONVICT A link with the Australia of the days when Johnson and Vaughan began their political... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - 2008 - 352 페이지
...almost hear the ghost of that earlier British propagandist, Samuel Johnson, repeating his famous remark: "The Irish are a fair people — they never speak well of one other."53 Perhaps most important, the vast majority of the Irish-Americans were Democrats, and in early... | |
 | Jared Lobdell - 2014 - 204 페이지
...knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" — or (ii, p. 307) "The Irish are a fair people;— they never speak well of one another" — or the pun in the following exchange (iv, p. 99): "'The woman had a bottom of good sense.' The... | |
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Sir, you have no reason to be afraid of me. The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No', Sir; the Irish are a FAIR PEOPLE; — they never speak well of one another. 
