...excellent trait of character : — ' You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson ', said he : ' I have tried in my time to be a philosopher ; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in'.1 Before we come to St. Clement's, we arrive, on the left-hand side of the way, at Essex Street...

...Professor Raleigh has wittily applied to him the confession of Dr. Johnson's friend, " I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." It is difficult, however, not to surmise a great deal of more or less unwilling philosophy beneath...

...hearts. * * * OLIVER EDWARDS once said to the great Doctor Johnson, "You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried, too, in my time, to be a philosopher...don't know how ; cheerfulness was always breaking in." * * * A BOARD of education, as a rule, does not want the cheapest man, but the best man. Hence, when...

...Boswell's ' Life of Johnson ' we read of a man who said to the sage, 'You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried, too, in my time to be a philosopher...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' We found the above delightful remark occurring to us from time to time in reading Sir Frederick Bridge's...

..." Mira cnno. Sol occubuit, nox nulla sccuta est." ' EDWARDS. ' You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' . . . have never known what it was to have a wife.' JOHNSON. ' Sir, I have known what it was to have...

...his deathless fame rests. That had come earlier. "You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson," said Edwards. "I have tried, too, in my time to be a philosopher;...don't know how ; cheerfulness was always breaking in." That was Edwards's great speech. By virtue of that candid confesson he takes his place with the shining...

...and his trees growing. He addressed his illustrious friend : ' You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried, too, in my time to be a philosopher...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' Boswell tells us here that Burke, Reynolds, and others to whom he mentioned this thought it an exquisite...

...highly admired: ' Vidit et erubuit lympha pudiea DEUM.' " EDWARDS. "You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher ;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." — Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, indeed, all the eminent men to whom I have mentioned this, have...

...occubuit, nox nuila secuta est.'" EDWARDS. 'You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my tune to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' — Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Courtenay, Mr. Malone, and, indeed, all the eminent men to...

...philosopher. Dr. Johnson. I have tried, too, in mj" THE RIDICULOUS PHILOSOPHER From a drtueing fry Mucltte time to be a philosopher, but I don't know how: cheerfulness was always breaking in." With the word "cheerfulness," Edwards had demolished the scheme of life of most of our professed philosophers,...