Quote#God & Faith
My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the…
Quote byJames Boswell · 1740–1795
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785), The lord was James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, (21 August 1773).
English (original)
My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.
— James Boswell
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