...exercise for those faculties in man that delight in action, or, as Dr. Johnson has expressed it, there arc few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. The merchants and manufacturers of to-day take the place, in their influence upon society, of the knights...

...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...

...ocean of London, in order to have a chance for rising into eminence ; and observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there, because...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....

...ocean of London, in order to have a chance for rising into eminence ; and observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there, because...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....

...ocean of London, in order to have a chance for rising into eminence ; and observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there, because...this," said Strahan, " the juster it will appear." He much disliked all speculative desponding considerations, which tended to discourage men from diligence...

...son. Old Mr. Strahan the printer (the founder of his typarchical dynasty) said to Dr. Johnson, that " there are few ways 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...

...Shakespeare, i.484, iv. 219, n. ; her saying on Voltaire, 485 ; she drops Johnson, iii. 201. Money. " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," ii. 156; "none better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction," 181 ; "it should be spent,"...

...Shakespeare, 1.484, iv. 219, n. ; her saying on Voltaire, 485 ; she drops Johnson, iii. 201. Money. " There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," ii. 1 56 ; " none better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction,'' 181 ; "it should...

...ocean of London, in order to have a chance for rising into eminence ; and, observing that many men were kept back from trying their fortunes there, because they were born to a competency, said, 1 This was not merely a cursory remark ; for in his Life of Fenton he observes, " With many other wise...

...Supper before, &c.' — CROKER. BOSwELL. Johnson, writing of the 2 A parody on Macbeth, act ii. sc. a. said, ' Small certainties are the bane of men of talents';'...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....