...there was no transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, before, &c." — CraJcer. " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in gettting money." " The more one thinks of this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan...

...believed there was no transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, before, &c." — Croker, " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in gettting money." " The more one thinks of this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan...

...''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 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...

...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...

...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 iu getting money." On another occasion Johnson observed with equal truth, if less originality, that...

...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...

...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...

...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...