 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 páginas
...spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances...Johnson's own superlative powers of wit set him above any risk of such uneasiness. Garrick had remarked to me of him, a few days before, " Rabelais and all other... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 páginas
...a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he lias a hundred chances for him: he can get but a guinea,...Johnson's own superlative powers of wit set him above any risk of such uneasiness. Garrick had remarked to me of him, a few days before, " Rabelais and all other... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 346 páginas
...spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances...he does not get the better, he is miserably vexed." (1)1 regretted that Dr. Johnson never took the trouble to study a question which interested nations.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 páginas
...spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances...he does not get the better, he is miserably vexed." (1)1 regretted that Dr. Johnson never took the trouble to study a question which interested nations.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 páginas
...a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he lias and gave some account aet him above any risk of such uneasiness. Garrick had remarked to me of him, a few days before, "... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 páginas
...that he did not know what metal a cannon is made of." " Goldsmith," he said on another occasion, " should not be for ever attempting to shine in conversation;...he does not get the better, he is miserably vexed." These observations, scattered over a space of many years, were made we should remember in the laxity... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 páginas
...spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances...he does not get the better, he is miserably vexed." - , ir---^-j These observations, scattered over a space of many years, were made we should remember... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 páginas
...spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances...he does not get the better, he is miserably vexed." These observations, scattered over a space of many years, were made we should remember in the laxity... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 páginas
...spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances...he does not get the better, he is miserably vexed." These observations, scattered over a space of many years, were made we should remember in the laxity... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 páginas
...spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred lo one, unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances...but a guinea and he may lose a hundred. Goldsmith is ia this state. When he contends, if he gets the better, it is a very little addition to a man of his... | |
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Now Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one who cannot spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances for... 
