...derive an adjective from Samuel Johnson's reply to the observation that he had become a philosopher: 'I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. ' ' 1 his IS reminiSCCm of David Hume, although it is made the more striking by the fact that Johnson...

...is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, philosopher I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher but,...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. Oliver Edwards (1711-1791) English lawyer Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo;...

...comparing their lives. "You are a philosopher," the man said to Dr. Johnson. "I have tried in my time, too, to be a philosopher, but I don't know how; cheerfulness was always breaking through" ' (The Philosophy of Laughter and Humour, ed. John Morreal, p. 1). Humorous allusions* to...

...college friend Edwards, meeting him after nearly half a century, said in the course of conversation, 'You are a philosopher. Dr Johnson. I have tried too...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in'. Johnson showed no particular displeasure; and when Boswell implied that Edwards's garrulity was the...

...tactlessly, bluntly 269 Joy, Cheerfulness One joy scatters a hundred griefs. — CHINESE PROVERB / have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but I don 't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. — OLIVER EDWARDS NOUNS 1 joy, joyfulness, joyousness;...

...part not, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass, in onler to get to bed. 1239 I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but,...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. EDWARDS Robert C. 1240 Never exaggerate your faults; your friends will attend to that. 1241 Whisky...

...For my part not, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass, in order to get to 3153 EDWARDS Richard 1523-1566 3154 The Paradise of Dainty Devices The falling out of faithful friends,...

...self-confidence. In Boswell's Life of Johnson he tells us of a Mr. Edwards who said: "I have tried hard to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." There is an element of this in the Scottish character. Such qualities as courage, resilience, moral...

...Bolt-court, where they sat in the library talking on various subjects, until Edwards suddenly said, "You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried...I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in."1 The story is not as irrelevant as it may seem. When the first of Fontane's Wanderings, which...

...be the mistress of all other sciences. Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations (17th century) 24 I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but,...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. Oliver Edwards, in Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson ( 17 April 1778) 25 Pretend what we may, the whole...