...my part, now, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass, in order to get to bed.' JOHNSON. 'You are a lawyer, Mr. Edwards. Lawyers know...Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred.' This interview confirmed my opinion of Johnson's most humane and benevolent heart. His cordial and...

...professional civil war . . ." Jacob A. Ornstein East Elmhurst JHS 127, Queens THOUGHT FOR A NEW TERM Edwards. "I am grown old: I am sixty-five." Johnson....Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred." — James Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson Instructors of in-service courses observe worthwhile teaching...

...my part, now, I consider supper as a turn-pike through which one must pass, in order to get to bed." JOHNSON. "You are a lawyer, Mr. Edwards. Lawyers know...Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred." This interview confirmed my opinion of Johnson's most humane and benevolent heart. His cordial and...

...part, now, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass in order to get to bed.'* " JOHNSON : ' You are a lawyer, Mr. Edwards. Lawyers...water, and put in for a hundred.' * * * " Mr. Edwards, when going away, again recurred to his consciousness of senility, and looking full in Johnson's face,...

...stations in this country is that of the law. Sir William Jones (1746-1794) English orientalist, jurist Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer A lawyer without history or literature...

...my part, now, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass, in order to get to bed.'i JOHNSON. 'You are a lawyer, Mr. Edwards. Lawyers know...have them to converse with. They have what he wants.' E0WAR0S. 'I am grown old: I am sixty-five.' JOHNSON. 'I shall be sixty-eight next birth-day. Come,...

...magnified his supposed failures as a man of letters liable to indolence. After all, Johnson held that "lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should...them to converse with. They have what he wants."' The friendship proved one of the few firm anchors of emotional support and well-being during Johnson's...

...in pain.910 So when Mr Edwards declared to him 'I am grown old: I am sixty-five," Johnson retorted: I shall be sixty-eight next birth-day. Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred.9" Hope, 'the cordial of life', must be founded on reason, not simply on desire.912 For Johnson,...

...respect for lawyers and law, as Johnson noted in a conversation with the solicitor Oliver Edwards: ' "You are a lawyer, Mr Edwards. Lawyers know life practically....have them to converse with. They have what he wants." ' : In this statement the word 'wants' is used in its eighteenthcentury sense of 'lacks', rather than...

...branch of human activity. Nothing human must be alien to him. "You are a lawyer", said Dr Johnson to Mr Edwards; "Lawyers know life practically. A bookish...have them to converse with. They have what he wants." Equally the man of letters has what the lawyer wants, for if he is to fulfil his role usefully and...