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" There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. "
Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr ... - Page 174
by Samuel Johnson - 1807
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The Great Schools of England: An Account of the Foundation, Endowments, and ...

Howard Staunton - 1865 - 622 pages
...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...
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The Doctor, &c, Volume 1

Robert Southey - 1865 - 758 pages
...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...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 43

1869 - 588 pages
...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...
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Discourse on the Life and Character of George Peabody: Delivered ...

Severn Teackle Wallis - 1870 - 84 pages
...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...
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Thoughts for Times and Seasons

John Timbs - 1872 - 104 pages
...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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...of London, in order to have a chance for fining into eminence ; and, observing that many ! men were kept back from trying their fortunes ยก there because...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,'...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...chance for rising to eminence, and observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortune there, because they were born to a competency, said,...this, (said Strahan,) the juster it will appear." Mr. Strahan had taken a poor boy from the country as an apprentice, upon Johnson's recommendation....
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Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: (founded Chiefly Upon Boswell).

Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pages
...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,...
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LIFE AND CONSERVATIONS OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON (FOUNDED CHIEFLY UPON BOSWELL).

ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...himself young as long as he can. Mr. Strahan quoted a capital saying of the Doctor's: " There arefnv 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,...
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Samuel Johnson

Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pages
...publisher, Strahan. Strahan reminded Johnson of a characteristic remark which he had formerly made, that there are " few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." On another occasion Johnson observed with equal truth, if less originality, that cultivating kindness...
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