 | William Tenney Brewster - 1895 - 266 pages
...Johnson to make a fresh start. In 1 736, there appeared an advertisement in the Gentleman's i*, Magazine. "At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young...the Latin and Greek languages by Samuel Johnson." If, as seems probable, Mrs. Johnson's money supplied the funds for this venture, it was an unlucky... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 304 pages
...the trade of Pedagogy, for by this also may life be kept-in. Let the world therefore take notice: ' At Edial near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen...Latin and Greek languages, by — SAMUEL JOHNSON.' Had this Edial enterprise prospered, how different might the issue have been! Johnson had lived a life... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...desk which belonged to Johnson years and her want of fortune.' Life, at Edial. Edial, 368 Essay on Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young Gentlemen...the Latin and Greek Languages, by Samuel Johnson. The undertaking proved abortive. Johnson, having now abandoned all hopes of promoting his fortune in... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...their disparity of a desk which belonged to Johnson years and her want of fortune.' Life, at Edial. Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young Gentlemen...the Latin and Greek Languages, by Samuel Johnson. The undertaking proved abortive. Johnson, having nowabandoned all hopes of promoting his fortune in... | |
 | 1897 - 790 pages
...method which is open to the humblest of us — namely, by advertising. " At Edial [now spelt Edgehill] near Lichfield in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are...the Latin and Greek languages by Samuel Johnson." It is interesting to note, with reference to this advertisement, as illustrating what I said about... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1899 - 514 pages
...appealed for pupils, in the well-known advertisement which appeared in "The Gentleman's Magazine":—"At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen...the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON." It was at last determined that David should be sent to the Rochestcr clergyman, who accepted the charge.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 562 pages
...very remarkable evidence that his regard and fondness for her never ceased, even after her death. He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he...languages, by SAMUEL JoHNSON." But the only pupils who were put under his care were the celebrated David Garrick and his brother George, and a Mr. Offely,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...very remarkable evidence that his regard and fondness for her never ceased, even after her death. He nce that the civilised man differs ... "6 1900 Sands & co."! Boswell James" James Boswell( Lichfield,in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by... | |
 | Robert Farquharson Sharp - 1900 - 424 pages
...school. Accordingly, in the issues of the Gentleman's Magazine for June and July 1736, there appeared the following advertisement : " At Edial, near Lichfield,...taught the Latin and Greek languages by Samuel Johnson ". The school was started, but its life only lasted a year and a half. A very small number of pupils... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...Johnson to make a fresh start. In 1736, there appeared an advertisement in the Gentleman's Magazine. " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young...the Latin and Greek languages by Samuel Johnson." If, as seems probable, Mrs. Johnson's money supplied the funds for this venture, it was an unlucky... | |
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He now set up a private academy, for which purpose " he hired a large house, well situated, near his native city. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, there is the following advertisement : " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen... 
