 | Medicine - 1876 - 1164 pages
...recall the words of the great English lexicographer, who, in 1769, in speaking of the American colonies, exclaimed, 'Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.' The Abbe Raynal, writing in the latter part of the last century,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 pages
...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 pages
...or four years. How the tories raved against America! "Sir," Dr. Johnson would say, " the Americans are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we can give them." At this crisis he wrote his extravagant pamphlet, "Taxation no Tyranny," a production... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - Europe - 1866 - 830 pages
...thunderbolts. In speaking of us to the Rev. Dr. CAMPBELL, he is represented by BOSWELL as saying: " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for everything we allow them short of hanging." But I am willing to forgive him for that and all his other... | |
 | Luke Tyerman - Methodism - 1872 - 740 pages
...genius. " Sir," said he, concerning the miscellaneous and mongrel colonists across the Atlantic, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." No wonder that the English government, already at 1775 their... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...abuse, " he'd burn and destroy them."— (Boswell, III. 314.) " Sir," said he on another occasion, " they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging."— (III. 327.) Akin to this were his strong and even intolerant... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had... | |
 | John Jolliffe Mulheron, Theodore Frelinghuysen Kerr - Medicine - 1876 - 788 pages
...recall the words of the great English lexicographer who, in 1769, in speaking of the American colonies, exclaimed, ' Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.' The Abbe Raynal, writing in the latter part of the last century,... | |
 | 1877 - 1284 pages
...of the great English lexicographer who, in 1769, in speaking to a friend of the American colonies, exclaimed : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." The Abbé Kaynal, writing in the latter part of the last... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769,1 was told by Dr. John Campbell that he had said of them, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." — Boswell. Mrs. Macsweyn, who officiated as our landlady... | |
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging. 
