 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...verse."' We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know...books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's ' Manchester.' I... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...verse2.' We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. 'All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know...books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's Manchester*. I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 pages
...verse."" We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told • This experiment which Madame Dacier made in vain, has since been tried in our own language, by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 pages
...of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told ns ; yet what large books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's 'Manchester.' I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...verse."* We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON: "All that is really fatmun of the ancient state such parts as arc taken from those old writers, is alt a dream, such as Whittaker's ' Manchester.'... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1891 - 576 pages
...says Boswell, "of antiquarian re§earchcs. JOHSSON—'All that is really known of the -'ncient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know...books have we upon it; the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's Manchester.'" Lift... | |
 | 1895 - 896 pages
...and with that division of it concerning which Dr. Johnson said but little more than a century ago, " We can know no more than what the old writers have told us." A great deal that seemed unknowable in Johnson's time, however, is now known, and Mr. Clodd here gives... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...verse."* We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON : "All that is really knoum of the ancient state force and beauty of which the English language is...and shows us that this stage of our being is full o such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whittaker's ' Manchester."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...verse."* We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told * This experiment which Madame Dacier made in vain, has since been tried in our own language, by the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 pages
...verse V We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. 'All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know...books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream, such as Whitaker's Manchester. I have... | |
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All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us ; yet what large books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old... 
