 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 páginas
...Carte's History ?'" JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir; when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. 1 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law; he left a great estate." BOSWELL. "That was because what he got accumulated without any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 páginas
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON. "Yes, sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book." Boswell argued warmly against the judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect judge,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 492 páginas
...when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.1 The greatest part of a writer's time 1s spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn...Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himselt entirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law; he left... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 500 páginas
...Carte's History'? JOHNSON. ' Yes, Sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly3. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...office. JOHNSON. ' Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law: he left a great estate.' BOSWELL. 'That was, because what he got, accumulated without... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 páginas
...felicity. ... A final condition is thoroughness. 'The greater part of an author's time,' said Dr. Johnson, 'is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.' . . . There is still preserved at Ferrara the piece of paper on which Ariosto wrote in sixteen different... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 páginas
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly." The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself ^^ «ntirely to his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things beside law: he left a great... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 páginas
...may play a little at cards for his amusement ; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthings in the Piazza. No, Sir, there is no profession to...office. JOHNSON. "Hale, Sir,, attended to other things besides law ; he left a great estate." BOSWELL. " That was because what he got accumulated without... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 464 páginas
...if 1 should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes iu folio, of an ordinary size and print." BOSWELL. "...office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things besides law; he left a great estate." BOSWELL. " That was because what he got accumulated without any... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 páginas
...chief glory of every people arises from its authors. 331 Johnson: Works. V. 49. (Oxford edition, 1825.) The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. 332 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1775. (Routledge edition, Vol. ii. Ch. 10.) The more intellectual... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyteries. Carlisle - 1889 - 638 páginas
...LAYMEN OF TIE FAST WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF % THE PRESBYTERY OF CARLISLE. HY l)RS. VANCK ANii NORCROSS. " A man will turn over half a library to make one book. " — Samuel Johnson. "Me write a book!" said he; ••I've mair sense. You'll find that you're sure... | |
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I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print. 
