 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 páginas
...Genius of Dr. Johnson, p. 88. ' Ibid, p. 79. own conscience when he replied to Boswell's importunity : " Sir, the good I can do by my conversation bears the...retired to a small town, does to his practice in a great city."1 His best justification, perhaps, may be found in his own words in a Rambler : " Every man of... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 páginas
...point ; and he was, I think, answering his own conscience when he replied to Boswell's importunity : " Sir, the good I can do by my conversation bears the...retired to a small town, does to his practice in a great city."1 His best justification, perhaps, may be found in his own words in a Rambler : " Every man of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 páginas
...is not to be blamed if he retires to ease and tranquillity. A physician, who has practised long in a great city, may be excused, if he retires to a small...small town, does to his practice in a great city." BOSWELL. "But I wonder, Sir, you have not more pleasure in writing than in not writing." JOHNSON. "Sir,... | |
 | 1923 - 896 páginas
...written to improve and instruct, directed his conversation to the same end. " Now, sir," he said, " the good I can do by my conversation bears the same...a small town does to his practice in a great city " ; and when Boswell wondered that he had not more pleasure in writing than in not writing, he replied,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1994 - 450 páginas
...not to be blamed if he retires to ease and tranquillity. Sir, a physician who has long practised in a great city may be excused if he retires to a small town and takes less practice. Sir, the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 páginas
...the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writing, that the practice of a physician, retired to a small town, does to his practice in a great city." Writing, then, simply allowed Johnson to extend the reach of his conversation about books beyond the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 páginas
...not to be blamed, if he retires to ease and tranquillity. A physician, who has practised long in a great city, may be excused, if he retires to a small...small town, does to his practice in a great city." BOSWELL. " But I wonder, Sir, you have not more pleasure in writing than in not writing." JOHNSON.... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Caroline Jebb - 664 páginas
...writings put together." Johnson himself could not be expected to foresee this. " Sir," he once said, " the good I can do by my conversation bears the same...small town, does to his practice in a great city." But we know that Burke was right ; it is by his spoken wisdom, far more than by the written, that Johnson... | |
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A physician, who has practised long in a great city, may be excused if he retires to a small town, and takes less practice. Now, Sir, the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings, that the practice... 
