...temperate, sensible, and trustworthy nation. We give our full adhesion to Dr. Johnson's aphorism : " Sir, there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in making money." But it must be confessed that money affairs are not amusing as a subject of conversation...

...son. Old Mr. Strahan the printer (the founder of his typarchical dynasty) said to Dr. Johnson, that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money ;" and he added, that " the more one thinks of this the juster it will appear." Johnson agreed with...

...Old Mr. Strahan, the printer (the founder of the typarchical dynasty), said to Dr. Johnson, that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than getting money;" and he added, that " the more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear." Johnson...

...Sutton thus far appears but to have traversed with persevering diligence the beaten road to riches. " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," says Dr. Johnson, but a wiser moralist has warned us that " he who maketh haste to be rich shall not...

...the printer (the founder of his typarchical dynasty) saiil to Dr. Johnson, that " there are fiaw wnys in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money;" and he added, that " the more one thinks of this the juster it will appear." Johnson agreed with him...

...Practice of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Pp. 47. Glasgow, 1868. DR. JOHNSON'S saying, that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," though it had perhaps a touch of satire in it, was meant on the whole in earnest, and is a sound one...

...but 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...

...too late : Lose not the Queene ; for, ten to one. If she be lost, the game is gone." MONEY-MAKING. There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money ; and the more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear. SIGNS OF GOOD TIMES. The parts and signs...

...put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to him : ' There are few ways in whicli | a man ran be more innocently employed than in getting money." 'The more one thinks of tliii,' »aid Strahan, ' the juster it will appear.' Mr. Htrahan had taken a poor boy from the country...

...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...Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, qualify himself for publick employment, by taking the oaths required, left the University without a...