...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 any thing we allow them short of hanging." Of this performance I avoided to talk with him ; for I had now formed a clear and settled opinion,...

...between them. In his version of the case, Johnson declared the colonists to be " a race of convicts, who ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them, short of hanging." Wesley's own recollections of Georgia were much to the same purpose; therefore it is not to be wondered...

...fellow-subjects in America. For, ;if. 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...

...edition). 13. — What noted English author applied these words to the rebellious American colonists : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging " ? — Dr. Samuel Johnson (see vol. ii., 1775, in Birbeck...

...wholesale opinions, and pretty harsh ones, about us Americans, and did not soften them in expression: "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." We smile complacently when we read this outburst, which Mr....

...wholesale opinions, and pretty harsh ones, about us Americans, and did not soften them in expression : "Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." We smile complacently when we read this outburst, which Mr....

...but mass them together and they are terrible indeed." Dr. Johnson said of the Americans in 1769 : " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Of the French he says: "What do you expect, dear sir, from...

...the assertion of Doctor Johnson, when that great but narrow Englishman said, in 1769, of Americans, " Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." There came to Harry, now and then, scraps of vague talk of...

...might ask with a halter round their necks"; and the great Samuel Johnson did not scruple to add that "they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." Against such intemperate vaporings are to be set the noble...

...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...