...very puzzling manner, happened to fay, " I don't underftand you, Sir ;" upon which Johnfon ob/erved, " Sir, I have found you an argument ; but I am not obliged to find you an underftanding." Johnfon had a kind of general averfion to a pun. " He once, however (lays Mr. B.),...

...Johnson having argued for some time with a perti^rt"*^ nacious gentleman ; bis opponent, who had talkedin a very puzzling manner, happened to say, " I don't...Orford was often called,) Johnson allowed that he gottogether a great many curiouslittle things, and told them in an elegant manner. Mr. Walpole thought...

...At another time, having argued at some length with a pertinacious gentleman, his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say,...Johnson observed, " Sir, I have found you an argument; Imt I am not obliged to find you an understanding." He used to say, that he made it a constant rule...

...gentleumu; hie opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to му, I don't understand yon, Sir; upon which Johnson observed, Sir, I have found you an argument ; but 1 am not obligedlo find you au understanding. шу mentioning it to him. He liked your compliment so...

...At another time, having argued at some length with a pertinacious gentleman, his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say,...but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." He used to say, that he made it a constant rule to talk as well as he could, both as to sentiment and...

...pertinacious gentleman; bis opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling inauner, happened to «ay, I don't understand you, Sir; upon which Johnson observed, Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am nut obligedlo find you an understanding. my mentioning it to him, He liked your compliment so well,...

...Warton, the late Laureat, observed, " It may have been written by Walpole, and Luckram'd by Mason." s understand you, sir;" upon which Johnson observed,...but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." . . He disapproved of Lord Hailes, for having modernised the language of the ever-memorable John Hales...

...At another time, having argued at some length with a pertinacious gentleman, his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say,...but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." He used to say, that he made it a constant rule to talk as well as he could, both as to sentiment and...

...and honour. Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to say,...understanding." Talking to me of Horry Walpole, (as Horace, now earl of Orford, was often called,) Johnson allowed that he got together a great many curious little...

...and honour. Johnson having argued for some time with a pertinacious gentleman; his opponent, who had talked in a very puzzling manner, happened to' say,...understanding." Talking to me of Horry Walpole (as Horace, now Earl of Orford, was often called), Johnson allowed that he got together a great many curious little...