 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pagina’s
...accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowledge. Sir, he would bring home a grinding-barrow, which you see in every street in London, and think that he had furnished a wonderful improvement.' " " Greek, Sir, (said he,) is like lace ; every man gets as much of it as he can." " When Lord Charles... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 280 pagina’s
...accessories to our present stock of mechanical knowledge. Sir, he would bring home a grinding-barrow, which you see in every street in London, and think that he had furnished a wonderful improvement."1 But brighter than these visionary fancies were shining for him now. There is little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 pagina’s
...consequently could not know what would be accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowT ledge. Sir, he would bring home a grinding barrow, which...think that he had furnished a wonderful improvement."' 1780] DR. BENTLEY'S VERSES 349 'Greek, Sir, (said he,) is like lace ; every man gets as much of it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 pagina’s
...accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowledge. Sir, he would bring home a grinding-barrow, which you see in every street in London, and think that he had furnished a wonderful improvement.' " " Greek, Sir, (said he,) is like lace ; every man gets as much of it as he can." " When Lord Charles... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pagina’s
...accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowledge. 'Sir, he would bring home a grinding-barrow, which you see in every street in London, and think that he had furnished a wonderful improvement.' " "It is well known that there was formerly a rude custom for those who were sailing upon the Thames... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pagina’s
...accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowledge. Sir, he would bring home a grind ing-barrow, which you see in every street in London, and think that he had furnished a wonderful improvement." ' 'Greek, Sir, (said he,) is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.'1 'When Lord Charles... | |
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Of all men, Goldsmith is the most unfit to go out upon such an inquiry ; for he is utterly ignorant of such arts as we already possess, and consequently could not know what would be accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowledge. Sir, he would... 
