 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 str.
...thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbons shall teach me how to dress 'em, In terms select and terse ; Jones, teach me modesty and Greek...; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk, to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace, From... | |
 | John Forster - 1871 - 544 str.
...» • * If I have thoughts and can't express 'cm. Gibbon «hall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak And Bcauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrowed grace, From... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 str.
...thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones, teach me modesty and Greek...; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk, to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace, From... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 str.
...thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty — and Greek; Smith how to think ; Burke how to speak, Burk (sic) And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrowed... | |
 | Sir Claude Phillips - 1894 - 474 str.
...meditation. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em, In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith how to think ; Burke how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrowed grace ; From... | |
 | John Rae - 1895 - 484 str.
...verses runs — If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In form select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse. Smith's conversation seems, from all the accounts we have of it, to have been... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 str.
...1790.] " IF I have thoughts and can't express them, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress them In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse." These well-known verses of Dr. Barnard (in reply to Dr. Johnson's taunt, "... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 str.
...1790.] " IF I have thoughts and can't express them, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress them In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse." These well-known verses of Dr. Barnard (in reply to Dr. Johnson's taunt, "... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1900 - 424 str.
...them are Sir William Jones, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and the fourth, Beauclerk. The lines are : — " Jones, teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk, to converse." The man who should have Adam Smith as a teacher in the art of thinking would... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1900 - 422 str.
...them are Sir William Jones, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and the fourth, Beauclerk. The lines are : — " Jones, teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk, to converse." The man who should have Adam Smith as a teacher in the art of thinking would... | |
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If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse. 
