...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...

...they ought not to do, they leave much undone which they ought to do. Works, i*. 313. Money : Money : THERE are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 323. GETTING money is not all a man's business : to cultivate kindness...

...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...in which a man can be more innocently employed than iu getting money." " The more one thinks of this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." Mr....

...blockhead, ever wrote except for money," iii. 72 ; and trade discussed by Johnson, ii. 99 ; Johnson said, " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," 298. Montagu. Mrs., sits to Miss Reynolds for her picture, iii. 259 ; her vanity, 92 ; drops Johnson...

...blockhead, ever wrote except for money," iii. 72 ; and trade discussed by Johnson, ii. 99; Johnson said, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," 29S. Montagu. Mrs., sits to Miss Keynolds for her picture, iii. 259 ; her vanity, 92; drops Johnson...

...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...