| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 372 |
| Samuel Johnson. (1709–1784) (continued) |
| 4054 |
| Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don’t let him go to the devil, where he is known. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 1 Vol. iv. Chap. ii. 1773. |
| 4055 |
| Was ever poet so trusted before? |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 2 Vol. v. Chap. vi. 1774. |
| 4056 |
| Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 3 Vol. v. Chap. vi. 1775. |
| 4057 |
| A man will turn over half a library to make one book. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 4 Vol. v. Chap. viii. 1775. |
| 4058 |
| Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 5 Vol. v. Chap. ix. 1775. |
| 4059 |
| Hell is paved with good intentions. 6 |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 7 Vol. v. Chap. ix. 1775. |
| 4060 |
| Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. 8 |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 9 Vol. v. Chap. ix. 1775. |
| 4061 |
| I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 10 Vol. vi. Chap. i. 1775. |
| 4062 |
| In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 11 Vol. vi. Chap. i. 1775. |
| 4063 |
| There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly,—but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 12 Vol. vi. Chap. i. 1775. |
| 4064 |
| There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 13 |
| Life of Johnson (Boswell). 14 Vol. vi. Chap. iii. 1776. |
| Note 1. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 2. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 3. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 4. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 5. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 6. See Herbert, Quotation 21. Do not be troubled by Saint Bernard’s saying that hell is full of good intentions and wills.—Francis de Sales: Spiritual Letters. Letter xii. (Translated by the author of “A Dominican Artist.”) 1605. [back] |
| Note 7. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 8. Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est (To know where you can find anything, that in short is the largest part of learning).—Anonymous. [back] |
| Note 9. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 10. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 11. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 12. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
| Note 13. Whoe’er has travell’d life’s dull round, Where’er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. William Shenstone: Written on a Window of an Inn. [back] |
| Note 14. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |
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