| James Boswell - 1831 - 586 páginas
...a competency, said, " Small certainties are the bane of men of talents ;" which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which...this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country as an apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation.... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 690 páginas
...a competency, said, " Small certainties are the bane of men of talents ;" which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which...this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country as an apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation.... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 366 páginas
...there was no transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, before, &c." — HARW00D. son in mind of a remark which he had made to him: " There...this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country as an apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation.... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 374 páginas
...there was no transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, before, &c." — HAHWOOD. son in mind of a remark which he had made to him : " There...this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country as an apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation.... | |
| John Timbs - 1840 - 430 páginas
...Old Mr. Strahan, the printer, (the founder of his typarchical dynasty,) said to Dr. Johnson, that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money;" and he added, that "the more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear." Johnson agreed with him.... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 392 páginas
...the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, before, &c." — HARWOOD. HICHAEL FA.THEH OF D1? SW; JOHNSOS. son in mind of a remark which he had made to him : " There...man can be more innocently employed than in getting mone"-" " The more one thinks of this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had... | |
| 1855 - 864 páginas
...temperate, sensible, and trustworthy nation. We give our full adhesion to Dr. Johnson's aphorism : " Sir, there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in making money." But it must be confessed that money affairs are not amusing as a subject of conversation... | |
| Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 páginas
...son. Old Mr. Strahan the printer (the founder of his typarchical dynasty) said to Dr. Johnson, that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money ;" and he added, that " the more one thinks of this the juster it will appear." Johnson agreed with... | |
| John Timbs - 1863 - 280 páginas
...Old Mr. Strahan, the printer (the founder of the typarchical dynasty), said to Dr. Johnson, that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than getting money;" and he added, that " the more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear." Johnson... | |
| Howard Staunton - 1865 - 622 páginas
...Sutton thus far appears but to have traversed with persevering diligence the beaten road to riches. " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," says Dr. Johnson, but a wiser moralist has warned us that " he who maketh haste to be rich shall not... | |
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