 | William Boyne - Tokens - 1891 - 834 pages
...for ^135,00x5 ; and upon this occasion the often-quoted words were used, that " they were not there to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice," words which the later history of the brewery has proved to be more than mere rodomontade. — [R. and... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...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 mindot cant. You may talk as other people do; you may say to a... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 394 pages
...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...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." ' Miss Burney thus writes of the day of the sale : ' Mrs. Thrale went early to town, to meet all the... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 594 pages
...inkhorn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman, and on being asked what he considered to be really the value of the property which was to be disposed...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." — Croker's Boswell, p. 682. The purchaser was David Barclay, the head of the great banking firm in... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 548 pages
...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...here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the lighted in exercising his mind on the science of numbers.' The letter (ante, ii. 485) about the book-trade... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 412 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 398 pages
...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 - Atlantic Ocean - 1892 - 320 pages
...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 - Thames River (England) - 1893 - 164 pages
...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 - English language - 1894 - 298 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
