 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...undertakes to teach.' SAMUEL JOHNSON, Preface to Richard Rolt, Dictionary of Trade and Commerce (1756) 'A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' SAMUEL JOHNSON inJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) INTRODUCTION [T]he historiography... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pages
...'strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere, that a "man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.i"66 This is at variance with Gibbon's judgement, that the literary imagination works betrer when... | |
 | Drayton Bird - 2002 - 324 pages
...America; the moral being, if you see a good idea that might work for you, steal it. The Right Approach 'A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.' Dr Johnson In his best book, My Early Life, Winston Churchill told how he coped with the Latin paper... | |
 | Alan Berkeley Thomas - 2004 - 292 pages
...academic writing and how to increase your chance of getting it published. Getting round to writing A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. (Dr Samuel Johnson) As the model of research portrayed in Figure 2.3 shows, the research process is... | |
 | Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, Nancy Amendt-Lyon - 2003 - 340 pages
...write even on the subway has a notable provenance. In Boswell's famous Life of Samuel Johnson, we have: "A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it" (entry March 1750). Now, memory tells me that Johnson further said that the sentiment was from Christopher... | |
 | Brendan Hennessy - 2006 - 430 pages
...journalists in low regard', The Penguin Book of Journalism. Seer ets of the Press, Penguin Books, 1999) A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. (James Boswell, quoting Dr Samuel Johnson) You have to be prepared to be unpopular if you're a journalist... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 pages
...strong confirmation of the truth of a remark of his, which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere.f that " a man may write at any time, if he will set...himself doggedly to it ;" for, notwithstanding his confriends, considering what should be the name of the periodical paper which Moore had undertaken.... | |
 | 1908 - 670 pages
...dust with summer air. HE is a wit who makes me laugh at others; a humorist shows me mine own follies. A MAN may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it; but he may not always sell what he produces. IP THE pen is the dumb-bell that develops the mind, the... | |
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Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 
