...Johnson's House in Gough Square. Boswell has a pleasing anecdote arising out of this propinquity : — " Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country...apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation. Johnson having inquired after him, said, ' Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, and I'll give this boy...

...Sutton thus far appears but to have traversed with persevering diligence the beaten road to riches. " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," says Dr. Johnson, but a wiser moralist has warned us that " he who maketh haste to be rich shall not...

...the printer (the founder of his typarchical dynasty) saiil to Dr. Johnson, that " there are fiaw wnys in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money;" and he added, that " the more one thinks of this the juster it will appear." Johnson agreed with him...

...Practice of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Pp. 47. Glasgow, 1868. DR. JOHNSON'S saying, that " there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," though it had perhaps a touch of satire in it, was meant on the whole in earnest, and is a sound one...

...but that of contracting. When old Strahan, the printer, recalled to Dr. Johnson a remark of his, that "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," he added, and with entire unconsciousness of the force of what he was saying, that "the more one thinks...

...too late : Lose not the Queene ; for, ten to one. If she be lost, the game is gone." MONEY-MAKING. There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money ; and the more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear. SIGNS OF GOOD TIMES. The parts and signs...

...because they were born to a competency, said, 'Small certainties are the bane of men of talents ;' which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put Johnson in...which he had made to him : ' There are few ways in whicli | a man ran be more innocently employed than in getting money." 'The more one thinks of tliii,'...

...because they were born to a competency, said, " Small certainties are the bane of men of talents:" which Johnson confirmed. Mr. Strahan put Johnson in...apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation. Johnson having inquired after him, said, " Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account, qualify himself for publick...

...man can be more innocently employed than in getting money ;" and added, "The more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had taken...apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation. Johnson, inquiring 236 JOHNSON AT THE THEATRE. after him, said, " Mr. Strahan, let me have five guineas on account,...

...himself young as long as he can. Mr. Strahan quoted a capital saying of the Doctor's : " There arcfau ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money;" and added, "The more one thinks of this, the juster it will appear." after him, said, " Mr. Strahan,...