 | John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - London (England) - 1853 - 386 pages
...Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., for 135,000?. "We are not here," said Johnson on the day of sale, " to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Robert Barclay, the first of the name in the firm (d. 1831), was a descendant of the famous Barclay,... | |
 | Mrs. Newton Crosland - Women - 1854 - 430 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.' " The brewery was sold for a hundred and thirty-five thousand pounds ; Mr. Barclay, a descendant of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1859 - 472 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." 1 LETTER 397. TO MRS. THRALE. " London, April B, 1781. " DEAREST MADAM, — Of your injunctions to... | |
 | T P Grinsted - Great Britain - 1859 - 342 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 of, said, ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Women - 1860 - 532 pages
...asked what he considered to be the real value of the property, he answered in true Johnsonian style : " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Mr. Thrale's death was thus alluded to by his widow in writing to Miss Burney, to whom she penned these... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 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.'" The executors had legacies of 2001. each ; Johnson, to the surprise of his friends, being placed on... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1861 - 572 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.' " The executors had legacies of £200 each ; Johnson, to the surprise of his friends, being placed... | |
 | 1861 - 898 pages
...We know, too, how upon this occasion he delivered himself of that magnificently Jolmsonic saying : ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' The business passed into the hands of the Barclays, and by the continuous associations of that name... | |
 | 1861 - 820 pages
...We know, toOj how upon this occasion he delivered himself of that magnificently Jolmsonic saying: ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' The business passed into the hands of the Barclays, and by the continuous associations of that name... | |
 | 1861 - 546 pages
...pounds, and he worked up his language to a height worthy of the occasion. " We are not here," he said, "to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Mrs. Thrale, .with her usual indefatigable energy, attended the sale, and had arranged beforehand that,... | |
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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... 
