 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 Seiten
...Johnson was highly pleased with his majesty's courteousness, and afterwards observed to a friend — ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman, as we may suppose Louis XIV. or Charles II.' In 1770, he published a political pamphlet, entitled The False Alarm, intended... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 Seiten
...conversation and " gracious behaviour. He said to Mr Barnard, " • Sir, they may talk of the King as they will, " but he is the finest gentleman I have...Langton, " ' Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentle" man as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth, " or Charles the Second." Johnson seems now for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 Seiten
...Majesty's conversation, and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr. Barnard, " Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have...suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second." At Sir Joshua Reynolds's, where a circle of Johnson's friends was collected round him to hear his account... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...observed to Mr. Langton, " Sir, his 1767. will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen." 58.' manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may...suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second." At Sir Joshua Reynolds's, where a circle of Johnson's friends was collected round him to hear his account... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 Seiten
...and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr. Bernard (the librarian,) ' Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever...suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second.'" * On the institution of the Royal Academy of Arts, Johnson was honoured by an appointment to the Professorship... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 Seiten
...and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr. Bernard (the librarian,) ' Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever...suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles the Second/" « On the institution of the Royal Academy of Arts, Johnson was honoured by an appointment to the Professorship... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 Seiten
...and gracious be" haviour. He said to Mr. Bernard (the librarian,) ' Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever...as we may suppose Lewis the Fourteenth or Charles tbe Second.'" * On the institution of the Royal Academy of Arts, Johnson was honoured by an appointment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 Seiten
...Johnson was highly pleased with his majesty's conrteousness, and afterwards observed to a friend—" Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman, as we may suppose Louis XIV. or Charles II." In 1770, he published a political pamphlet, entitled The False Alarm, intended... | |
 | 1814 - 642 Seiten
...i» the finest gentleman I have ever seen." And he also observed at another time to Mr. Ijiyton, " Sir, his manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Louis the Fourteenth or Charles t,lus Second." INFIDELITY. At the time when the works of Hump, and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 Seiten
...and gracious behaviour. He said to Mr Bernard (the librarian), " Sir, they may talk of the Ring as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have...seen." And he afterwards observed to Mr Langton, " Sir, bis manners are those of as fine a gentleman as we may suppose Lewis XIV. or Charles n." * Johnson... | |
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Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen. 
