 | James Boswell - 1827 - Liczba stron: 622
...into eminence ; and, observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there, because ht, and when I delineate him without reserve, I do...recommended, both by his precept and his example. " uf a remark which he had made to him ; " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Liczba stron: 586
...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...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Liczba stron: 690
...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...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Liczba stron: 374
...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...talents ;" which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put John(1 ) What evidence is there of this being the prevailing sin of the nonjuring clergy beyond Cibber's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Liczba stron: 366
...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...talents;" which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put John(1) What evidence is there of this being the prevailing sin of the nonjuring clergy beyond Cibber's... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - Liczba stron: 430
...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 - Liczba stron: 392
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1862 - Liczba stron: 760
...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 - Liczba stron: 280
...; and observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there because they had been born to a competency, said, " Small certainties are...of talents ;" which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country as • Saturday Review. an apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation.... | |
 | Howard Staunton - 1865 - Liczba stron: 622
...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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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. 
