 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 pages
...head), you should have given us your Travels in France. I am sure I am right, and there's an end on't." I said to him that it was certainly true, as my friend...knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge." BOSWELL : " The proverb, I suppose, Sir, means, he must carry a large stock with him to trade with."... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 730 pages
...Islands of Scotland," had been in his mind before he left London. JOHNSON. " Why yes, Sir, the topicks were ; and books of travels will be good in proportion...travelling ; a man must carry knowledge with him, if lie would bring home knowledge." BOSWELL. "The proverb, I suppose, Sir, means, he must carry a large... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...not fit that every man should travel ; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. — Feliham. An the Spanish proverb says, " He who would bring home...man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring hoine knowledge. — Johnson. Some are found to travel with no other intent thnn that of understanding... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...travel ; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. — Fettham. As the Spanish proverb «ays, " r. HAIR . — The hair is the richest ornament of...were in monruing. —Luther. Her head was Ьнге( Johnson. Some aie found to travel with no other intent than that of understanding and collecting pictures,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1852
...head), you should have given us your Travels in France. I am sure I am right, and there's an end ori't." I said to him that it was certainly true, as my friend...knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge." BOSWELL : " The proverb, I suppose, Sir, means he must carry a large stock with him to trade with."... | |
 | Children - 1909 - 280 pages
...peculiar fascination of the art of Italy in that century. WALTER PATER. GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION As the Spanish proverb says : " He who would bring...knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. DR. JOHNSON. BRASSEY, A. (A.). A Voyage in the Sunbeam. Longmans. .75 This abridgment of the original... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...tenets, which he generally would not suffer to be in any degree opposed. 50 I .said to him [Johnson] that it was certainly true, as my friend Dempster...Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' 1778 So it is in traveling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - Europe - 1928 - 454 pages
...Trask, for " The Angelus," by Florence Earle Coates. George E. Woodberry, for " Shelley's House." " As the Spanish proverb says, ' He who would bring...knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge." Boswefl, Life of Johnson. CONTENTS GENERAL PAGE Bridges, Robert A. Passer-by 3 Burr, Amelia Josephine... | |
 | Hans Paul Caemmerer - Washington (D.C.) - 1939 - 392 pages
...porch and state apartment the following inscriptions are cut : Carriage Porch (south elevation) HE THAT WOULD BRING HOME THE WEALTH OF THE INDIES MUST CARRY...KNOWLEDGE WITH HIM IF HE WOULD BRING HOME KNOWLEDGE State Apartment (south elevation) LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIMEST AT BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOD'S, AND... | |
 | José Bento Monteiro Lobato - United States - 1948 - 356 pages
...32 MONTEIRO LOBATO lição civica — uma frase de Samuel Johson gravada sobre os portais: He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry...knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. Não se traduza essa legenda, que fica infantil e ridicula. Ha no inglês mil coisas que não podem... | |
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had been in his mind before he left London. JOHNSON : " Why, yes, Sir, the topics were ; and books of travels will be good in proportion to what a man has previously in his mind ; his knowing what to observe : his power of contrasting one mode of life... 
