 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...probability which we discover. Providence gives the power, of which reason teaches the use. AUTHORSHIP. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. SPEAKING IN PUBLIC. We must not estimate a man's powers by his being able or not able to deliver his... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...go to the devil where he is known. Ibid. An. 1773. Was ever poet so trusted before ! Ibid. An. 1774. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Ibid. An. 1775. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Ibid. An. 1775. The potentiality of growing... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 368 pages
...accumulated three folio volumes of notes. "The greater part of an author's time," said Dr. Johnson, " is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." Unhappily, with these riches comes the chance of being crushed by them, of which the agreeable Roman... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly.* The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other things beside law : he left a great estate." BOSWELL. " That was, because what he got, accumulated without... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...Carte's History?" JOHNSON. " Yes, Sir. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly." The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...an instance of a perfect Judge, who devoted himself • Johnson certainly did, who had a mind stored with knowledge, and teeming with imagery ; but the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...he is known. Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1775. Was ever poet so trusted before ! Ibid. An. 1774. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ibid. An. 1775. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Ibid. An. 1775. Knowledge is of two kinds.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...from his own mind, he writes very rapidly : the greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. The great source of pleasure is variety. Uniformity must tire at last, though it be the uniformity... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...indulgence from them. — Chesterfield. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly : the greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Johnson. I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide ; for the man is efficiently destroyed, though... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...before ? An. 1774. Attack is the reaction ; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. Ibid. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. An. 1775. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Ibid. Hell is paved with good intentions.1... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 634 pages
...employ what time he has to himself to his own advantage, in the most profitable manner." "Then, Sir," said Davies, who enlivened the dispute by making it...his office. JOHNSON. " Hale, Sir, attended to other 1 Johnson certainly did, who had a mind stored with knowledge, and teeming with imagery ; but the observation... | |
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect judge, who devoted himself... 
