 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 страници
...reflection which many years later he inserted in his Life of Akenside : ' A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual ; they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 страници
...reflection which many years later he inserted in his Life of Akenside : ' A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual; they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know... | |
 | 1900 - 1006 страници
...accomplishments like his " — that Dr. Johnson wrote his well-known lines : " A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual ; they that employ him know not his excellence, they that reject him know... | |
 | 1900 - 994 страници
...accomplishments like his" — that Dr. Johnson wrote his well-known lines: "A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual ; they that employ him know not his excellence, they that reject him know... | |
 | 1902 - 804 страници
...is still true in not a few instances. Listen to what ho says : " A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual. They that employ him know not his excellence. They that reject him know not... | |
 | 1920 - 414 страници
...such service or to criticixe its lack. As Samuel Johnson has said, "A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune. His degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual. They that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 826 страници
...willingness to exert a lucrative art, where there is no hope of lucre. A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual ; they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter - 2002 - 444 страници
...practitioners lay in the palm of fate: A physician in a great city [he wrote in his Life of Akenside] seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual; they that employ him know his excellence; they that reject him know not his... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 522 страници
...courteous manner. Polycraticus Book II, Chapter 29 Johnson, Samuel A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual; they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not... | |
 | Cecil Helman - 2003 - 176 страници
...feelings about their doctors. As Samuel Johnson put it, in his Life of Mark Akenside: A physician seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual; they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not... | |
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A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer... 
