 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 430 pages
...the bookseller are brought to mind. When the messenger who carried the last sheet of his Dictionary to Millar returned, Johnson asked him, " Well, what..." — " I am glad," replied Johnson, with a smile, "he thanks God for anything."— Boswett's Life of Johnson. Hawkins inserts two notes which are said... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...author was often goaded to dispatch, more especially as he had received all the copy-money, by different drafts, a considerable time before he had finished...Johnson with a smile), that he thanks God for anything." 1 It is remarkable, that those with whom Johnson chiefly contracted for his literary labours were Scotchmen,... | |
 | London tales - 1858 - 262 pages
...'Yes, sir, if he sat next you.' When the messenger who carried the last sheet of Johnson's Dictionary to' Millar returned, Johnson asked him, ' Well, what...'he said, "thank God, I have done with him.'" — 'I ana glad,' replied Johnson, with a smile, 'that ho thanks God for anything.' THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE.... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...from carrying the last sheet to Millar, Johnson enquired what he had said. ' Sir,' answered the man, 'he said "Thank God I have done with him." ' ' I am glad,' rejoined Johnson with a smile, ' that he thanks God for anything.' Even to have finished the work in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...from carrying the last sheet to Millar, Johnson enquired what he had said. 'Sir,' answered the man, he said 'Thank God I have done with him.' ' I am glad,' rejoined Johnson with a smile, ' that he thanks God for anything.' Even to have finished the work in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 pages
...from carrying the last sheet to Millar, Johnson enquired what he had said. ' Sir,' answered the man, he said ' Thank God I have done with him.' ' I am glad,' rejoined Johnson with a smile, ' that he thanks God for anything.' Even to have finished the work in... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...from carrying the last sheet to Millar, Johnson enquired what he had said. 'Sir,' answered the man, he said 'Thank God I have done with him.' ' I am glad,' rejoined Johnson with a smile, ' that he thanks God for anything.' Even to have finished the work in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...author was often goaded to dispatch, more especially as he had received all the copy-money, by different drafts, a considerable time before he had finished...Johnson with a smile), that he thanks God for anything." ' It is remarkable, that those with whom Johnson chiefly contracted for his literary labours were Scotchmen,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...author was often goaded to dispatch, more especially as he had received all the copy-money, by different drafts, a considerable time before he had finished...messenger) he said, ' Thank GOD, I have done with kirn.' " " I am glad (replied Johnson, with a smile,) that he thanks GOD for any thing." ' It is remarkable,... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...of Mr. Warton. The patience of the proprietors was often tried before the completion of the work ; when the messenger who carried the last sheet to Millar returned, Johnson asked, "Well, what did he say?" "Sir," answered the messenger, " he said, ' Thank God, I have done with him.'... | |
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When the messenger who carried the last sheet to Millar returned, Johnson asked him, " Well, what did he say?"—" Sir, (answered the messenger) he said, thank GOD I have done with him. 
