Quote from "Milestones in the History of English in America"

[David A. Daniel]

Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Subject:      Q: Quote from "Milestones in the History of English in
America"
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>If anyone has "Milestones in the History of
>English in America", by Allen Walker Read and
>Richard W. Bailey (Duke Univ. Press, 2002), could
>they complete the following excerpt allegedly from page 57 for me?

Here it is.

"Stuart very promptly replied, "Sir, I can better
tell you where I did not learn it - it was not
from your dictionary." Johnson seemed aware of
his own abruptness, and was not offended. Or so it seemed.
Inwardly, he seethed with resentment and hatred for young Stuart and
wanted nothing more than to thrash him within an inch of
his life. But then he stopped to consider, "Perhaps, this
young man can satisfy the ungodly needs and desires that
assault me daily, nay, hourly, nay, every waking minute of my
damnable existence!" He began slowly to unbutton his trousers

After that my copy gets illegible.
DAD


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