 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 σελίδες
...saints attend. * * * * I would do everything to serve a friend. Sweet language will multiply friends. If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. If you... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 σελίδες
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....friendship in constant repair" The celebrated Mr. VVilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his, but who was ever eminent for literature... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 σελίδες
...who is not a complete resemblance of himself, it will be impossible for him to form any union at alL" He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds: "If a man does not...life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair." Amid the cold obscurity of Johnson's early life there... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 σελίδες
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, "If a man docs not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 574 σελίδες
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr. Wilkcs, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his, but who was ever eminent for literature... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 σελίδες
...79) writing to Captain Langton from Bolt Court, March 20, 1782.—Hill's Boswell, vol. iv., 145. " He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ' If a man does not...should keep his friendship in constant repair."'' Hill's Boswell, vol. i., 300. IX. (Page 106.)—"Johnson: 'It is wonderful, sir, how rare a quality... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 σελίδες
...surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery. Rambler, No. 99. • • IF a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Boswell's Life of Johnson, i. 300. • • • MEN engaged, by moral or religious motives, in contrary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 σελίδες
...the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery. Rambler, No. 99. • • • Ira man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. BoswelPs Life of Johnson, i. 300. • • • MEN engaged, by moral or religious motives, in contrary... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 σελίδες
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 σελίδες
...are cold and dull. The proposition which I have now endeavoured to illustrate was, at a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself....literature and vivacity, sallied forth with a little Jeu d' Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue, prefixed to the Dictionary... | |
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If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his,... 
