 Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of...  London as it is to-day - Сторінка 4061851Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 390 стор.
...Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., for 135,000?. " We are not here," said Johnson on the day of sale, " to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Robert Barclay, the first of the nama in the firm (d. 1831), was a descendant of the famous Barclay... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 стор.
..." ' • '; •'- ' > ft 1 L•1 !*TMW'$ . 1•-' ^Vr^=3:f JOHNSON AT THE SALE OF THRALE'S BREWERY. sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." On Friday, April 6, he carried me to dine at a club, which, at his desire, had been lately formed at... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - 1853 - 386 стор.
...Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., for 135,000?. "We are not here," said Johnson on the day of sale, " to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Robert Barclay, the first of the name in the firm (d. 1831), was a descendant of the famous Barclay,... | |
 | Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1854 - 430 стор.
...exciseman ; and, on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, ' We are not here to...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' " The brewery was sold for a hundred and thirty-five thousand pounds ; Mr. Barclay, a descendant of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 472 стор.
...exciseman ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." 1 LETTER 397. TO MRS. THRALE. " London, April B, 1781. " DEAREST MADAM, — Of your injunctions to... | |
 | T P Grinsted - 1859 - 342 стор.
...asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, said, ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dream of avarice.' " Our thoughts wandered first, as in duty bound, to the tutor ; but the pavement... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 316 стор.
...looked upon him witk reverence and affection." — KEARNEV. 8 JOHNSON AT THE SALE Or THKALE'S BREWERY. sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." On Friday, April G, he carried me to dine at a club, which, at his desire, had been lately formed at... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 532 стор.
...asked what he considered to be the real value of the property, he answered in true Johnsonian style : " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Mr. Thrale's death was thus alluded to by his widow in writing to Miss Burney, to whom she penned these... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 стор.
...excise-man ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, ' We are not here to...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.'" The executors had legacies of 2001. each ; Johnson, to the surprise of his friends, being placed on... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 572 стор.
...excise-man ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, ' We are not here to...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' " The executors had legacies of £200 each ; Johnson, to the surprise of his friends, being placed... | |
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