 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 sider
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 sider
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 sider
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 sider
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were. I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 sider
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Air. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustom, ed to consider conversation as a contest ; and such was his notion of Burke... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 sider
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 sider
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 458 sider
...much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls fortt all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation ,as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 sider
...unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill roe." So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest, and such was his notion of Burke... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 sider
...exertion of his own mind, that when unwell at one time, and Burke's name was mentioned, he observed, " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me." " Burke," added he again, " is the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the general... | |
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And once, when Johnson was ill, and unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said " That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now it would kill me. 
