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" That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' This stroke stunned me a good deal, and when we had sat down I felt myself not a little embarrassed and apprehensive of what might come next. "
Johnsonian Miscellanies - Page 414
edited by - 1897
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...the fenfe of being of that country ; and as if I had faid that I had come away from it or left it, retorted, " That, Sir, I find* is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This ftroke ftunned me a good deal ; and • when we had fat down, I felt myfelf not a little embarrafled,...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...the sense of being of that country; and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, ' That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...the sense of being of that country ; and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, " That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...the sense of being of that country; and as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, " That, Sir I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal; and when we had eat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...the sense of being of that country ; and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, " That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...the sense of being of that country ; and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, " That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and ...

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...the sense of being of that country ; and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, " That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...corrected the misstatement here mentioned. — MALOKE. had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, " That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. With copious notes by Malone

James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...be registered with peculiar attention. 54.J [170, had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, " That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of у our countrymen cannot help. This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...Murphy'a Life waji not published till 1793. — ED.] said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, " That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed,...
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