...blockhead, ever wrote except for money," iii. 72 ; and trade discussed by Johnson, ii. 99 ; Johnson said, " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," 298. Montagu. Mrs., sits to Miss Reynolds for her picture, iii. 259 ; her vanity, 92 ; drops Johnson...

...into eminence ; and, observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there, because they were born to a competency, said, ''Small certainties...* ' There are few ways in which a man can be more innocestly employed than in getting money." " The more one thinks of this," said Strahan, "the juster...

...that of contracting. When old Strahan, the printer, recalled to Dr. Johnson a remark of his, that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," he added, and with entire unconsciousness of the force of what he was saying, that " the more one thinks...

...into eminence ; and, observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there, because iters that England has produced : " Tom Jones " has stood the test of public opinion Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country as an apprentice,...

...rising to eminence, and observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortune there, because they were born to a competency, said, " Small certainties...getting money." " The more one thinks of this, (said Strahan,) the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country as an apprentice,...

...into eminence ; and, observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there, because they were born to a competency, said, " Small certainties...put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to is related, that he who devised the oath of abjuration, profligately boasted, that he had framed a...

...publisher, Strahan. Strahan reminded Johnson of a characteristic remark which he had formerly made, that there are " few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." On another occasion Johnson observed with equal truth, if less originality, that cultivating kindness...

...publisher, Strahan. Strahan reminded Johnson of a characteristic remark which he had formerly made, that there are " few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." On another occasion Johnson observed with equal truth, if less originality, that cultivating kindness...

...Pilgrim's Progress, p. 229. Of course, against this may be set the curious assertion of Dr. Johnson that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." 1 Unintentionally, no doubt, it is, perhaps, the most cynical sentence ever uttered ; for just as the...

...money " ; and to have acted on another saying of that "respectable Hottentot" equally monstrous, that there are " few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." In all business transactions he loved to have two strings to his bow. A hankering after good bargains...