 | James Boswell - 1907 - 626 стор.
...pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one the best speaker...situation in a future state, having much curiosity lo know his notions on that point. JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, the happiness of an unembodied spirit will... | |
 | Edwin Winfield Bowen - 1909 - 166 стор.
...pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but Irishmen would pronounce it grait. Now, here were two men of the highest rank, the one the best speaker...speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely." As this quotation shows clearly and forcibly, even the usage of the very best speakers in England in,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 612 стор.
...1772] ON GHOSTS 187 and yet Mallet, I suppose, was past five-and-twenty before he came to London.' I again visited him at night. Finding him in a very...much curiosity to know his notions on that point. . . . BOSWELL. 'I do not know whether there are any wellattested stories of the appearance of ghosts.... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1917 - 786 стор.
...way: great should be pronounced so as to rime with seat. " Now," said Johnson to Boswell, " here are two men of the highest rank, the one the best speaker...speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely." Before the publication of the Dictionary, Chesterfield wrote two articles for the World commending... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 стор.
...pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one, the best speaker...speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely." Marriage On Tuesday, March 31, he and I dined at General Paoli's. A question was started whether the... | |
 | 1925 - 600 стор.
...AND MORE BY MARJORIE H. NICOLSON "I ventured," wrote Boswell of a conversation with Johnson in 1772, "to lead him to the subject of our situation in a...much curiosity to know his notions on that point: Boswell : ' But, Sir, is there any harm in our forming to ourselves conjectures as to the particulars... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 стор.
...and Sir William Yonge sent me word that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one the best speaker...speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely." Significant not only of Johnson's attitude toward language but of a general tendency prevalent since... | |
 | George Harley McKnight - 1928 - 638 стор.
...and Sir William Yonge sent me word that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men of the highest rank, the one the best speaker...speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely." Significant not only of Johnson's attitude toward language but of a general tendency prevalent since... | |
 | 1904 - 604 стор.
...pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but Irishmen would pronounce it grait. Now, here were two men of the highest rank, the one the best speaker...speaker in the House of Commons, differing entirely." As this quotation shows clearly and forcibly, even the usage of the very best speakers in England in... | |
 | A. Jacob - 1987 - 594 стор.
...March, 1722 gives us an idea of the impression that it made on the staunch Anglican writer. When Boswell "ventured to lead him to the subject of our situation in a future state" and asked him if there were "any harm in our forming to ourselves conjectures as to the particulars... | |
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Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme to state; and Sir William Yonge sent me word that it should be pronounced so as to rhyme to seat, and that none but an Irishman would pronounce it grait. Now here were two men... 
