...woodcarving or blacksmithing. If anybody ever knew how to write it was Samuel Johnson, and he said, "A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it." There are thousands of young people in this country who want to become authors. It is an ambition laudable...

...reading and tedious inquiry, and to satisfy themselves and others with illustrious examples, # * * A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to do it. NOT UNDERSTANDING AN ARGUMENT. JOHNSON had been arguing with an opponent who happened to say,...

...unwearied pursuit of unattainable perfection, was no part of his character.! "A man," Johnson said himself, "may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it."J He was constitutionally indolent, and subject to a frequent depression of spirits, and we think...

...for composition ; and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr. Johnson, "a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly * to it." 1 This word is commonly used to signify sullenly, gloomily ; and in that sense alone it appears in...

...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere2, that 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it3;' for, notwithstanding his constitutional indolence, his depression of spirits, and his labour...

...one's own work. We can derive some reassurance from the reflection that it was the same oracle who said that a man may write at any time if he will set himself 'doggedly to it. Another dariger confronting the writer who, determined to get away from the beaten track, develops...

...which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements. m Adventurer, No. 138. A MAN may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. Boswell's Life ofJohnson, v. 40. Computation : NEVER think that you have arithmetic enough ; when you...

...respectable householders. 318 Douylas Jerrold : Specimens of Jerrold' s Wit. The Perils of Authorship. A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 319 Johnson: Bo.iwell's Life, of Johnson. V. 40. (George Kirkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) An author and...

...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glynn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday....

...Wives, two allowed to the Landgrave of Hesse, 182. Worthington, Dr., a Welsh clergyman, 386. Writing, a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it, 25. Wynne, Mrs. Glynn, sings Welsh songs to Johnson, 392. • Sir Thomas, Lord Newborough, 3S9 n. Yesterday....