 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1910 - 282 pages
...It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words: ' ' Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task."The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 pages
...much at eighteen as I do now [then aged fifty-four]. My judgement, to be sure, was not BO good ; but I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.' — S. JOHNSON. (Boswell's Life.) GIBBON'S EARLY READING THE perusal of the Roman classics was at once... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1911 - 488 pages
...him. It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words: "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 pages
...one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be sure, was not so good; but I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I...acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come unto you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'" Vol. II, p. 109. 1763... | |
 | Frank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin - 1914 - 690 pages
...him. It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words: "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome, and... | |
 | John Rutledge Scott - 1915 - 692 pages
...him. It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson, at Oxford, in these words: 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.' The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome, and... | |
 | John Rutledge Scott - 1915 - 694 pages
...him. It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson, at Oxford, in these words: 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.' The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome, and... | |
 | Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 410 pages
...him. It must have been a very foolish old gentleman who addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words: "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." The old gentleman seems to have been unaware that many other things besides reading grow irksome, and... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pages
...much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be sure, was not so good; but I had all the facts. [1560 I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old...plain words, sufficiently confirms what I have already ad- [1570 vanced upon the disputed question as to his application. It reconciles any seeming inconsistency... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pages
...that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be sure, was not so good ; but, I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I...that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.' " He mentioned to me now, for the first time, that he had been distressed by melancholy, and for that... | |
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My judgment, to be sure, was not so good ; but I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, ' Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge ; for when years come upon you, you... 
