...his townsmen. He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period : " In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of...peaceable and the quarrelsome. When I returned to Lichrield, after having been in London, my mother asked me, whether I was one of those who gave the...

...Quaker, and used to go there sometimes when he drank wine. He said, that in the last age, when his mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it ; th e peaceable and the quarrelsome. When he returned to Lichfield, after having been in London, his...

...in London. Dr. Johnson, while at breakfast in the Highlands one morning, told Boswell that when his mother lived in London there were two sets of people, 'those who gave the wall and those who took it/ and that when he returned from London to Lichfield his mother had asked him to which set he belonged....

...intentional fasting, but happened just in the course of a literary life' " (V.284) ; "in the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of...of those who gave the wall, or those who took it" (V.23o). Such spontaneous recollections of the past are significant just because of the part we expect...

...a survival of an old custom, about which the great Dr. Johnson has these interesting remarks: "When my mother lived in London, there were two sets of...and the quarrelsome. When I returned to Lichfield (1737), after having been in London, my mother asked me whether I was one of those who gave the wall...

...his townsmen. He related to me the following minute anecdote of this period : " In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of...who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When J returned to Litchfield, after having been in London, my mother asked rne, whether 1 was one of those...