 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...Oldmixon, and George Ducket, Esq. which he was constitutionally subject, and which was aggravated by the death of his wife two years before. I have heard...literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little jfett d'Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary:... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...dark Hereafter alone. He once 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." JOHNSON [speaking of a favourite subject of his—subordination] : " Sir, I would no more deprive a... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...dark Hereafter alone. He once 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." JOHNSON [speaking of a favourite subject of his—subordination] : " Sir, I would no more deprive a... | |
 | Dover, Folkestone, and Deal guide - 1875 - 188 pages
...ADVERSITY ! thou thistle of life, thou too art crownedfirst with a flower, then with down. — Foster. Ira man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his fricndship in constant repair.— Dr. Johnson. &oil tljc ICot of Jtau Weave, brothers,... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 798 pages
...contributors, the wise advice of Dr. Johnson : • " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances in life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man,...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." Our new Volume and its successors will begin at the natural date for beginning, New Year's Day. Home... | |
 | Phrenology - 1876 - 1000 pages
...and the rest to my ears." CENSURE is the. tax a man pays to the public for being eminent — Su{fl. IF a man does not make new acquaintance!: as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left all alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. — Johnson. THE wealth of a man is... | |
 | 1877 - 790 pages
...contributors, the wise advice of Dr. Johnson : " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances in life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man,...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." Our new Volume and its successors will begin at the natural date for beginning, New Year's Day. Home... | |
 | William Johnson Cocker - English language - 1878 - 140 pages
...from each other by semicolons. See Rule I. p. 23. EXAMPLES. " 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." — Dr. Johnson. "When Dr. Franklin wished to gain his enemy, he asked him to do him a favor." " Clap... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 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 Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...heart's content : he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig ; he was a very good hater." If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. To Sir Joshua Reynolds. And again, " The more a man extends and varies his acquaintance, the better."... | |
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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,... 
