 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...a state of nature ; but I think the more they are taught, the more modest they are. The French are a gross, ill-bred, untaught people ; a lady there will spit on the floor and rub it with her foot2. What I gained by being in France was, learning to be better satisfied with my own country. Time... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 460 Seiten
...state of nature ; but, I think, the more they are taught, the more modest they are. The French are a gross, ill-bred, untaught people : a lady there...negation, against doing nothing, it is better to be sure ; bat how much more would a young man improve were he to study during those years. Indeed, if a young... | |
 | Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - 538 Seiten
...bade the footman blow into it. But French ladies did not know the rudiments of genteel behaviour. " A lady there will spit on the floor and rub it with her foot." Johnson, of course, had a high standard. Did he not hand the cake at tea at Streatham Place so assiduously... | |
 | Robert Kleuker - 1907 - 188 Seiten
...©efunb= beit jufфrieb (Bosw. 259, 263). Unb fein Oefamturteii über ben 9îufcen biefer SReife lautete: What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country (Bosw. 400). ©o urteilte 3to^nfon felbft über bie SBebeutung feiner SReife naф granrшф, bie auf... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 Seiten
...a state of nature ; but I think the more they are taught, the more modest they are. The French are a gross, ill-bred, untaught people ; a lady there will spit on the floor and rub it with her ioot What I gained by being in France was, learning to be better satisfied with my own country. Time... | |
 | Jeffrey O'Connell, Thomas E. O'Connell - 2008 - 208 Seiten
...French are a gross, ill bred, untaught people," Johnson expostulated, "a lady there will spit upon the floor and rub it with her foot. What I gained...France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.""4 Spitting on the floor was a particular bugbear for him. "This [he said] is as gross a thing... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1912 - 992 Seiten
...repose, started up at our entrance a man black as Cyclops from the forge." (d) " What I gained from being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country." 3. "The Lives of the Poets ... is the work that best reflects his mind." Discuss. 4. Give a critical... | |
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Is not modesty natural ?" JOHNSON. " I cannot say, Sir, as we find no people quite in a state of nature ; but, I think, the more they are taught, the more modest they are. The French are a gross, ill-bred, untaught people : a lady there will spit on... 
