 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...from the year i6oo to 1860." [f] To diffu.se it more extensively, ?.. : i _ -..i. T«._I: « !_..: OZiZ X X X X jeu d'esprit upon the | account of the death and character of Willian following passage in his Grammar... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...guest. s. HOMER— Odyssey. Bk. XV. L. 83. Pope's trans. If a man does not make new acquaintances, r t. SAM' L JOHNSON — BonaelFs Life of Johnson, 1755. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1897 - 392 pages
...of comfort in it." Johnson said to Sir Joshua Reynolds: " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." When the great natural philosopher Michael Faraday was a very young man, he wrote to a friend, —... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent this work, than any now tobe found in it. "You know,...enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometimes we say a GOWER. jeu d'esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." \ LETTERS OF JUNIUS (1769) TO THE KING You have still an honourable part to act. The affections of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 404 pages
...affectionate temper and bright fancy will coalesce a great deal sooner than those who are cold and dull. left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little jeu d'esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary:... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...ii. 1755. I am glad that he thanks God for anything. ibid. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. ibid. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. chap.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...Chap. ii. 17SS. I am glad that he thanks God for anything. JIM If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. yja. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. chap.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' 1755] GARRICK'S EPIGRAM 201 The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite... | |
 | Business - 1915 - 534 pages
...goal, And not the storms or strife." Samuel Johnson said: "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair." Here we have two powerful suggestions — two sermons that should... | |
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If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his,... 
