...Life of J., a. 369: Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to him1 "There «re few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." See also Johnson's comment on Garrick (ibid., 3. 8 1 ) : "I am of opinion, the reputation of avarice...

...saying of Johnson is a temptation to discursive essay. " There are," he told Strahan, the publisher, " few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." It was characteristic of Johnson to hate the cant of the simple life. He knew that the good things...

...avarice became acumen; sloth, leisure; and pride, ambition: so much so that Samuel Johnson could say. "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. A religious vocabulary of passions had been replaced by a commercial vocabulary of interests. A similar...

...is like muck, not good except it be spread. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Men who make money rarely saunter; men...

...conducting affairs than 'passions' of a more bellicose nature. With Dr Johnson's pronouncement that 'there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money', it becomes a positively harmless pastime. Indeed, as the most dogged and persistent of passions, it...

...greed. Again: The morality of the almighty dollar is not the worst of moralities. Dr. Johnson said, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently...of this, [said Strahan] the juster it will appear" (Boswell 1949 [1791], 532; 27 March 1775). So it has appeared in the long conversation after 1775....

...pure and beneficent when pursued as an economic interest? Or, as Dr. Johnson puts it, are "there . . . few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money"?32 In fact, commerce, money-making, and acquisitiveness may lead to hell on earth, especially...

...in the final chapter of the current section- 'Compound Feed Production — Strategic Implications'. 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money' Dr Samuel Johnson (1 709-84) Qu so \ncl this chapter deals with money - the cost of employing people,...

...might have gone unremedied. It was not a time when the public agreed with Dr. Johnson's sentiment, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." This is not to say that there were no charges to answer for in the South Sea Bubble. Some of the minor...

...was evident in the comparative peace of the nineteenth century. Samuel Johnson said that there were "few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." Rationality which accompanies the price system brings its own handicaps in the formation of monopolies....