>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 proportio

>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.