 A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer...  Essays on Professional Education - Page 201by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thacher - Medicine - 1828 - 318 pages
...London, the biographer adds, " A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally...his excellence ; they that reject him know not his deficiencies." After residing in New-York for a period of near six years, and feeling his ties and... | |
 | Ebenezer Baldwin - 1831 - 348 pages
...the profession. He says, " a physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part, totally...; they that reject him know not his deficience. By an acute observer, who had looked on the transactions of the Medical world for half a century, a 187... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...growling gloomy way, that a " physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally...his excellence ; they that reject him know not his deficiences.'' And why is it so ? Ask the " eminent" Saint John Long, and he will tell you? Talk of... | |
 | 1831 - 702 pages
...seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totallv casual ; they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know not his deficiencies." And why is it so? Ask the "eminent" Saint John Long, and he will tell you? Talk of talent,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Poets, English - 1832 - 328 pages
...ingenuity." "Aphysician in a great city," says Johnson, " seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally...looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the ' Fortune of Physicians.' " The practice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...eminence of popularity. A physician in a grea city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune , hie degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally...employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject nim know not his déficience. By any acute observer, who hac looked on the transactions of the medical... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1835 - 416 pages
...request.i " A physician in a great city," observes Johnson, " seems to be the mere play-thing of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally...looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the ' Fortune of Physicians.'"2 According to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...or eminence of popularity. A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; half a century, a very curious book, might be written on the " Fortune of Physicians." Akenside appears... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...or eminence of popularity. A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally...employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject nim know not his dencience. By any acute observer, who had looked on the transactions of the medical... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1839 - 320 pages
...is Johnson's remark, that " a physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune j his degree of reputation, is for the most part, totally...excellence — they that reject him, know not his deficiency. By an acute observer, who had looked upon the transactions of the medical world, for half... | |
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