...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...

...Small certainties are the bane of men of talents ; ' which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put Johnson 1 ~ { ʗ $z ܴà M A P J 2fԨ y ~ J , y 6q k p "QV enquired after him, said, ' Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, and I'll give this boy...

...bishop is confused, and concludes, as do all Englishmen, that Doctor Johnson was right when he said that "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." They spend four pounds sterling per head for drink, or some $750,000,000 a year, and in the year 1906-7...

...considered unfavourable to virtue. ' There are few ways,' said a great master of practical life, ' in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money V The ideal life preached by Seneca is quite as selfish in its object as that of the business-man,...

...of The Hypocrite justly applicable to the Methodists, but it was very applicable to the Nonjurors.' Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country...apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation. Johnson having enquired after him, said, 'Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, and I'll give this boy...

..."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...apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation. Johnson having enquired after him, said, "Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, and I'll give this boy...

...His time is, I suppose, largely spent in making money. Dr. JOHNSON. It is, sir, and there are indeed few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in making money. Mr. BOSWELL. He might devote himself to literature. Dr. JOHNSON. Dr. JOHNSON. For his...