 I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare, that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of...  The Atlantic Monthly - Sivu 4911927Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1990 - 244 sivua
...gesture, "a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship." He went on to offer some advice to the dictionary maker of a kind that shows pretty clearly how and... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 sivua
...that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. (Boswell, vol. i, p. 259) 7 Robert Folkenflik notices the etymological joke in 'That Man's Scope',... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 sivua
...Chesterfield had in mind when he encouraged Johnson to undertake the work and declared to the world, "I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my...believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair."1' But even before the "celebrated letter," as Boswell called it, in which Johnson... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1999 - 419 sivua
...for Mr. Johnson . . . and . . . surrender all my right and privileges in the English language . . . Nay, more, I will not only obey him like an old Roman,...implicitly believe in him as my Pope, and hold him infallible while in the chair, but no longer. ( World, November 28,1754) If we remember that in the... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999
...that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr Johnson during the term of his dictatorship.4 Johnson as dictator? Chesterfield was writing with tongue almost in cheek, thinking... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 sivua
...that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr Johnson, during the...believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer. Lord Chesterfield, 28 November 1754, letter to The World 8:22 I... | |
 | 1741 - 700 sivua
...Johnfon, during the tefm of his dictatorfhip. Nay more ; I will not only obey him, like an old Raman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly...believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer. More than this he cannot well require ; for I prefume that obedience... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 sivua
...that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freehorn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the...of his dictatorship. Nay more, I will not only obey hirti like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him... | |
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