...1 791 ) 20 July 1 762 24 BOSWELL: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it ... JOHNSON: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help. James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson ( l 74 l I i ft May I 7ft ? 25 The notion of liberty amuses the...

...Johnson (James Boswell; 1791) 79 BOSWELL I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it... JOHNSON That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help. May 16, 1763. Quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell; 1791) 80 Claret is the liquor for boys;...

...Scotland, but I cannot help it.' . . . [Johnson replies, punning on the expression "come from Scotland,"] 'That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.'" Life of Johnson l :3gz. 28 briefly. With the exception of their four-month walking tour of the Scottish...

...‘very big man' with ‘uncouth' voice one of the most famous ripostes ever recorded: ‘Sir, that, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' Boswell committed another gaffe by presuming to tell Johnson about Garrick, for which Johnson struck...

...his accent, was a Scot. 'Mr Johnson,' said I, T do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.' That, Sir, I find is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.'' 1 This first exchange between the future biographer and his subject set the tone for many of their...

...Johnson,” said I, “indeed I come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.” “Sir,” replied he, “that, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.” Mr. Johnson is a man of a most dreadful appearance. He is a very big man, is troubled with sore eyes,...

...the expression 'come from Scotland', which I used in the sense of being of that country; and as if I had said that I had come away from it or left it,...apprehensive of what might come next. He then addressed himselt to Davies: 'What do you think of Garrick? He has refused me an order for the play for Miss...