...work. Every thing has been gleaned. Dr. Johnson said of himself,' I am not uncandid, nor severe: I sometimes say more than I mean, in jest, and people are apt to think me serious 3 .' The exercise of a bon-mot.' Letters of Radiliffe and James, p. 266. Romilly wrote...

...work. Every thing has been gleaned. Dr. Johnson said of himself,' I am not uncandid, nor severe: I sometimes say more than I mean, in jest, and people are apt to think me serious V The exercise of a bon-mot.' Letters of Radcliffi and Jnmes, p. 266. Romilly wrote...

...Johnson was in better spirits. He had arrived at the years which bring the philosophic mind, and he was " ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms" than he was formerly. And at the Pantheon did he not talk with a certain Mrs. Bosville from Yorkshire, whom...

...look upon myself to be a man very much misunderstood. I am not an uncandid, nor am I a severe man. I sometimes say more than I mean in jest, and people...good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.'" On his return from Heale he wrote to Dr. Burney. "I came home on the i8th at noon to a very disconsolate...

...look upon myself to be a man very much misunderstood. I am not an uncandid, nor am Ia severe man. I sometimes say more than I mean, in jest; and people...good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly." ' On his return from Heale he wrote to Dr. Burney :— 'I came home on the 18th at noon to a very disconsolate...

...look upon myself to be a man very much misunderstood. I am not an uncandid, nor am Ia severe man. I sometimes say more than I mean, in jest ; and people...good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.' '" On his return from Heale he wrote to Dr. Burney.—" I came home on the 18th of September, at noon,...

...jest; and people are apt to believe me serious: wever, I am more candid than I was when I was younger. I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am idy now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I LS formerly.' I do not wonder at Johnson's...

...was law, or eect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.—Kacon. As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. —Johnson. To love the public, to...

...look upon myself to be a man very much misunderstood. I am not an uncandid, nor am Ia severe man. I sometimes say more than I mean, in jest; and people...good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly." 1 On his return from Heale he wrote to Dr. Burney:— 'I came home on the 18th at noon to a very disconsolate...

...look upon myself to be a man very much misunderstood. I am not an uncandid, nor am Ia severe man. I sometimes say more than I mean, in jest; and people...good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.'" On his return from Heale he wrote to Dr. Burney:— 'I came home on the 18th at noon to a very disconsolate...