 | John Timbs - 1872 - 104 pages
...too late : Lose not the Queene ; for, ten to one. If she be lost, the game is gone." MONEY-MAKING. There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money ; and the more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear. SIGNS OF GOOD TIMES. The parts and signs... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...'Small certainties are the bane of men of talents ;' which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to him : ' There are few ways in whicli | a man ran be more innocently employed than in getting money." 'The more one thinks of tliii,'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...Small certainties are the bane of men of talents:" which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to him ; " There...Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, qualify himself for publick employment, by taking the oaths required, left the University without a... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...man can be more innocently employed than in getting money ;" and added, "The more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had taken...apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation. Johnson, inquiring 236 JOHNSON AT THE THEATRE. after him, said, " Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account,... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...himself young as long as he can. Mr. Strahan quoted a capital saying of the Doctor's : " There arcfau ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money;" and added, "The more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear." after him, said, " Mr. Strahan,... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...himself young as long as he can. Mr. Strahan quoted a capital saying of the Doctor's: " There arefnv ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money;" and added, "The more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear." after him, said, " Mr. Strahan,... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...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... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - Business - 1878 - 384 pages
...exercise for those faculties in man that delight in action, or, as Dr. Johnson has expressed it, there arc few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. The merchants and manufacturers of to-day take the place, in their influence upon society, of the knights... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...forge.'" Here are a few more passages illustrating his cultivation of the grand manner.— Editor. Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country...Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, and I'll give this boy one. Nay, if a man recommends a boy, and does nothing for him, it is sad work. Call... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...light, and the scene altogether is not unworthy of the artist's pencil " Mr. Strahan," says Boswell, " had taken a poor boy from the country as an apprentice,...Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, and I'll give this boy one. Nay, if a man recommends a boy, and does nothing for him, it is a sad work.... | |
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. 
