 The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.  Littell's Living Age - Seite 2981848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1898 - 252 Seiten
...reading, not only as entertaining, but as adding to one's stock of knowledge. Says Dr. Johnson : ' 'Sir, the happiness of London is not to be conceived but...within the circumference of ten miles from where we sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." I could talk days, yes, months over all we saw in even the... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 568 Seiten
...advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after him." Talking of a London life, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...where we now sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." Boswell — "The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another." Johnson... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 Seiten
...advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after him." Talking of a London life, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...where we now sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." Boswell — "The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another." Johnson... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 Seiten
...advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after him." Talking of a London life, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...where we now sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." Boswell — "The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another." Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 Seiten
...advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after him."* Talking of a London life, he said: " ficiently admire Shenstone. That ingenious and elegant BOSWELL : " The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another." JOHNSON:... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 Seiten
...advantage was overbalanced by his making the boys run after him." Talking of a London life, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived but...we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." BOSWELL. " The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another." JOHNSON.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 500 Seiten
...esteem him to be. Talking of a London Kfe, he said, " The happiness of London is not to be conceived bat by those who have been in it. I will venture to say,...within the circumference of ten miles from where we now eit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." BOSWELL. " The only disadvantage is the great distance at... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 Seiten
...BLACKFEIARS 327 CHAPTER XII. LONDON BRIDGE AND SOUTHWABK 346 INDEX 367 WALKS IN LONDON INTRODUCTORY. ' Q IR, the happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those £j who have been in it. I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 464 Seiten
...shall begin," I said resolutely, " to explore London to-morrow." GREATNESS OF LONDON AUGUSTUS JC HARE , the happiness of London is not to be conceived but...within the circumference of ten miles from where we sit than in all the rest of the kingdom." Such was the dictum of Dr. Johnson when he was seated with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 Seiten
...the great and good man which they esteemed and ever will esteem him to be. 384 SECOND MARRIAGES [1769 BOSWELL. ' The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another.' JOHNSON.... | |
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