Sentences with phrase «hanged in a fortnight»
In the NASL, though, the wonderful concentration of mind promised by Dr. Johnson to those who are to be hanged in a fortnight is plain enough in the new deal.
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In an outburst of good cheer, Samuel Johnson apparently once remarked that «when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully».
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Hanging lunches take place every day during the busy fortnight in which the show's exhibits (1,266 this year) are all assigned a place in one of the RA's magnificent galleries.