 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...the exciseman he so cordially detested; and when asked what he thought the property was really worth, answered: " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers...the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams «/ ariirUe." With all our good Doctor's learning, shrewdness, force of character, he was yet, in some... | |
 | Theology - 1874 - 404 pages
...pounds, and he worked up his language to a height worthy 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 arranged beforehand that,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...ink-horn 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 of, answered, " We 1 Mrs. Piozzi states that Johnson's ever to happen! .... Johnson, howfondness for Thrale "had a dash... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...ink-horn 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 of, answered, " We 1 Mrs. Piozzi states that Johnson's ever to happen! .... Johnson, howfondness for Thrale "had a dash... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1875 - 296 pages
...do you remember what Dr. Johnson said about Thrale's brewery, when the business was being sold ? " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Do you hold literature as something less than beer, and are you going to limit my power of increasing... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - English fiction - 1875 - 182 pages
...do you remember what Dr. Johnson said about Thrale's brewery, when the business was being sold ? ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' Do you hold literature as something less than beer, and are you going to limit my power of increasing... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1876 - 636 pages
...with an inkhorn at 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 ! " If Johnson really used the words attributed to him, he never displayed his sound common sense more... | |
 | Edward Ford (J.P.) - 1876 - 88 pages
...hole—like an exciseman—and on being asked what he really considered the value of the property to be, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." SIR RICHARD STEELE. whose life can hardly be surpassed in the wildest inventions of fiction. Miss Malyn—young,... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1878 - 200 pages
...inkhorn 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." ' This latter phrase was merely Johnsonese for the Goodwill of the business. The price realised was... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Great Britain - 1878 - 398 pages
...occasion of the sale, which he attended as an executor, though often quoted, are worthy of repetition : 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' Two vats are shown, each of which can contain 3300 barrels of liquor. The water used in brewing is... | |
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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... 
