Life of Johnson.
AN Saturday, May 1, we dined by ourselves at our old rendezvous, the Mitre tavern. He w'as placid, but not much disposed to talk. He observed that “ The Irish mix better with the English than the Scotch do: their language is nearer to English; as a proof of which, they succeed very well as players, w'hich Scotchmen do not. Then, Sir, they have not that extreme nationality which we find in the Scotch. I will do you, Boswell, the justice to say that you are the most unscottified of your countrymen. You are almost the only instance of a Scotchman that I have known who did not at every other sentence bring in some other Scotchman.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 6
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119Life of Johnson. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 6
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