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发帖数: 43926 | 1 Not PC-in Praise of a Great Englishman
http://anatheimp.blogspot.ca/2009/11/not-pc-in-praise-of-great-englishman.html
第一本权威英语字典（https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_
English_Language）的编写人，萨缪尔约翰逊
所有引用的萨缪尔约翰逊言论用【标出】
Lovers of the English language, or words in general, will be mindful that
this year （2009） marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Doctor Samuel Johnson, the compiler of our first dictionary. His namesake,
the equally larger than life Boris Johnson marked the occasion with a piece
in The Daily Telegraph, pointing out how ill-fitted he would be as
commentator in our PC world: Polly Toynbee would be in a permanent state of
apoplexy! He was certainly no believer in the equality of the sexes;
关于女性：
【Public practices of any art, and staring in men's faces, is very
indelicate in a female. 】（这是说女性不应该学画肖像画）
【A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his
table, than when his wife talks Greek.】
【Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is
not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.】
Now add to the mixture an explosive xenophobia, one that still embraced the
traditional English dislike of the Scots, the Irish and the French. Even the
Americans don't escape a swipe;
关于各种外地人：
【Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we
allow them short of a hanging. 】
The French were a dirty lot and Ireland was worth seeing but not worth going
to see. But his sharpest barbs were directed against the 'Scotch';
【What enemy would invade Scotland, where there is nothing to be got?】
Asked by a Scot what Johnson thought of Scotland: 【"That it is a very vile
country, to be sure, Sir" "Well, Sir! (replies the Scot, somewhat mortified)
, God made it." Johnson: "Certainly he did; but we must always remember that
he made it for Scotchmen, and comparisons are odious, Mr. S------; but God
made hell."】
【The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that
leads him to England!】
【Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.】
His distaste even makes its way into The Dictionary, where the definition of
oats is given as;
【A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland
supports the people.】
Still for all that, for all of his curmudgeonly grumpiness, and the
generally reactionary, high Tory nature of his views, he had a huge
generosity of spirit. Though no believer human equality in general he was
outraged by slavery. After the outbreak of the American Revolution he
remarked;
【How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of
negroes?】
One of his most intimate human relationships, moreover, was with his black
servant, Francis Barber, generally known as Frank, whom he treated more or
less like a son, solicitous over his education, and making him the chief
beneficiary of his will. And despite all of the barbed humour and sallies
directed at the Scots his most fruitful intellectual relationship was with
James Boswell, a Scottish lawyer, whose tome-like Life of Johnson, one of
the true landmarks of English literature, is the source of some of the more
memorable bone mots, including a few of my favourites;
各种警句：
【That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. 】
【Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.】
【When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London
all that life can afford.】
【I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. 】
【A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the
matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing
to say.】
【All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.】
It was his own great project, The Dictionary of the English Language, the
standard reference work until late into the nineteenth century, which caused
the most astonishment when he was alive:
【Adams: But, Sir, how can you do this in three years?
Johnson: Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in three years.
Adams: But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty
years to compile their Dictionary.
Johnson: Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times
forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion
of an Englishman to a Frenchman. 】
Thus is the proportion of Samuel Johnson, a great lexicographer and a great
Englishman. So, here is to you, Doctor Johnson, with all your sexism, with
all your xenophobia, too big for this little age. | i***h
发帖数: 12655 | 2 这个印象很深
说起这位老兄就想到这句
【A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland
supports the people.】 | v*****1
发帖数: 2200 | 3 还以为是这个
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【在 H********g 的大作中提到】
: Not PC-in Praise of a Great Englishman
: http://anatheimp.blogspot.ca/2009/11/not-pc-in-praise-of-great-englishman.html
: 第一本权威英语字典（https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_
: English_Language）的编写人，萨缪尔约翰逊
: 所有引用的萨缪尔约翰逊言论用【标出】
: Lovers of the English language, or words in general, will be mindful that
: this year （2009） marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of
: Doctor Samuel Johnson, the compiler of our first dictionary. His namesake,
: the equally larger than life Boris Johnson marked the occasion with a piece
: in The Daily Telegraph, pointing out how ill-fitted he would be as
| d********f
发帖数: 43471 | 4 左右x都一样得势就xjb整，右x当年被左x下套搞了禁酒令，基本导致清教崩盘。左x过
去20多年大搞全球化，真主伟大，捅屁股pride导致老川上台。本质上都是得势久了，
脑子都不正常了
piece
【在 H********g 的大作中提到】
: Not PC-in Praise of a Great Englishman
: http://anatheimp.blogspot.ca/2009/11/not-pc-in-praise-of-great-englishman.html
: 第一本权威英语字典（https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_
: English_Language）的编写人，萨缪尔约翰逊
: 所有引用的萨缪尔约翰逊言论用【标出】
: Lovers of the English language, or words in general, will be mindful that
: this year （2009） marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of
: Doctor Samuel Johnson, the compiler of our first dictionary. His namesake,
: the equally larger than life Boris Johnson marked the occasion with a piece
: in The Daily Telegraph, pointing out how ill-fitted he would be as
| H********g
发帖数: 43926 | 5 极端思想之国
【在 d********f 的大作中提到】
: 左右x都一样得势就xjb整，右x当年被左x下套搞了禁酒令，基本导致清教崩盘。左x过
: 去20多年大搞全球化，真主伟大，捅屁股pride导致老川上台。本质上都是得势久了，
: 脑子都不正常了
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