 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...Commissioner of Excise." The persons to whom he alludes were Mr. John Oldmixon, and George Ducket, Esq. which he was constitutionally subject, and which was...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little jfett d'Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary:... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pages
...dark Hereafter alone. He once said to Sir Joshua Reynolds : " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." JOHNSON [speaking of a favourite subject of his—subordination] : " Sir, I would no more deprive a... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...dark Hereafter alone. He once said to Sir Joshua Reynolds : " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." JOHNSON [speaking of a favourite subject of his—subordination] : " Sir, I would no more deprive a... | |
 | Dover, Folkestone, and Deal guide - 1875 - 188 pages
...ADVERSITY ! thou thistle of life, thou too art crownedfirst with a flower, then with down. — Foster. Ira man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his fricndship in constant repair.— Dr. Johnson. &oil tljc ICot of Jtau Weave, brothers,... | |
 | 1877 - 796 pages
...contributors, the wise advice of Dr. Johnson : • " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances in life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man,...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." Our new Volume and its successors will begin at the natural date for beginning, New Year's Day. Home... | |
 | 1876 - 1000 pages
...and the rest to my ears." CENSURE is the. tax a man pays to the public for being eminent — Su{fl. IF a man does not make new acquaintance!: as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left all alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. — Johnson. THE wealth of a man is... | |
 | 1877 - 790 pages
...contributors, the wise advice of Dr. Johnson : " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances in life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man,...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." Our new Volume and its successors will begin at the natural date for beginning, New Year's Day. Home... | |
 | William Johnson Cocker - 1878 - 140 pages
...from each other by semicolons. See Rule I. p. 23. EXAMPLES. " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." — Dr. Johnson. "When Dr. Franklin wished to gain his enemy, he asked him to do him a favor." " Clap... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 pages
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself...Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pages
...heart's content : he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig ; he was a very good hater." If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. To Sir Joshua Reynolds. And again, " The more a man extends and varies his acquaintance, the better."... | |
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If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his,... 
