 | James Boswell - 1891 - 412 páginas
...time and space pant,' iv. 30. PARADOX. ' No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,' ii. 84. PARCEL. ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond i the dreams of avarice ' (Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. loo-l. PARENTS. ' Parents not in... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 páginas
...ink-horn and pen in his buttonhole, like an excise man ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered : " We are not here * Baretti, in a MS. note on the ' Piozzi Letters,' i. 369, says that ' the two last years of Thrale's... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1892 - 320 páginas
...ink-horn and pen in his button-hole, like an excise-man; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed...potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice' " (Birkbeck Hill's " Boswell," 1887, iv., 87). PAGE 74, 1. 14. "the whimsical notion of Plato." —... | |
 | Victoria Steamboat Association - 1893 - 152 páginas
...sale Dr. Johnson, who was a friend of the Thrales', said, "We are not here to sell a parcel of bottles and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice!" And he was not wide of the mark! RIGHT. through those long years in which he was carrying on his stupendous... | |
 | William Edward Mead - 1894 - 298 páginas
...inkhorn and pen in his buttonhole, like an exciseman, and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ' " * Such a style is easily caricatured, as Hood's appears in the following parody by the c ^nM™so... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 páginas
...inkhorn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman, and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Johnson: My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. You may talk as other people do; you may say to a... | |
 | Thames - 1894 - 154 páginas
...sale Dr. Johnson, who was a friend of the Thrales', said, "We are not here to sell a parcel of bottles and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice ! " And he was not wide of the mark ! RtGHT. through those long years in which he was carrying on his... | |
 | John James Sexby - 1898 - 676 páginas
...inkhorn and pen in his buttonhole, like an Excise-man ; and that on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, "We are mt here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 páginas
...inkhorn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman, and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Johnson: My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. You may talk as other people do ; you may say to... | |
 | Winifred Carter - 1949 - 328 páginas
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Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his buttonhole, like an exciseman; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property, which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of... 
