...greed. Again: The morality of the almighty dollar is not the worst of moralities. Dr. Johnson said, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently...of this, [said Strahan] the juster it will appear" (Boswell 1949 [1791], 532; 27 March 1775). So it has appeared in the long conversation after 1775....

...pure and beneficent when pursued as an economic interest? Or, as Dr. Johnson puts it, are "there . . . few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money"?32 In fact, commerce, money-making, and acquisitiveness may lead to hell on earth, especially...

...in the final chapter of the current section- 'Compound Feed Production — Strategic Implications'. 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money' Dr Samuel Johnson (1 709-84) Qu so \ncl this chapter deals with money - the cost of employing people,...

...might have gone unremedied. It was not a time when the public agreed with Dr. Johnson's sentiment, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." This is not to say that there were no charges to answer for in the South Sea Bubble. Some of the minor...

...was evident in the comparative peace of the nineteenth century. Samuel Johnson said that there were "few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." Rationality which accompanies the price system brings its own handicaps in the formation of monopolies....

...interest in not being so."71 Now it may well be the case, to cite Samuel Johnson's famous epigram, that, "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."" Certainly, when one compares the profit motive to the wide range of homicidal and genocidal passions...

...devotion. WASHINGTON IRVING, (1783-1859) US author. Wolfert's Roost, "The Creole Village" (1855). 1 7 There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson,...

...self-interest benefited society by restraining political passions. In the words of Samuel Johnson, 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.'24 Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith agreed, adding that a healthy self-interest lay at the...

...his master to praise commerce, if moderately pursued, as a stimulus to agricultural productivity. 4. "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," March 27, 1775. 5. Gillies' Aristotle, 11:41. 6. Bernard Mandeville in his Fable of the Bees was to...

...very precise about money: he liked making it - he apparently often quoted Samuel Johnson's remark that 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money' - and he was always very precise about how he spent it. He had his home ledger in which he recorded...