 Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of...  The Bristol Temperance Herald - Page 831851Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - Caste - 1869 - 402 pages
...interpreted, signifies in ' the midst of large vessels of the kind which Johnson described as ' not a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice ; ' and, what is more to the purpose, almost under the shadow of the house in which Richard Heber had... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1872 - 730 pages
...exciseman ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to...POTENTIALITY of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." This latter phrase was merely a Johnsonian expression for the goodwill of the business. The price realized... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, 'AVc are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' ' On Friday, April 6, he carried me to dine at a club, which, at his desire, had been lately formed... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...the exciseman he so cordially detested; and when asked what he thought the property was really worth, answered: " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers...the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams «/ ariirUe." With all our good Doctor's learning, shrewdness, force of character, he was yet, in some... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...thousand pounds of a morn- she ran away with Hetty to Brighton." ing, how unlikely it would have seemed are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice."1 On Friday, April 6, he carried me to dine at a club, which, at his desire, had been lately... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...thousand pounds of a morn- she ran away with Hetty to Brighton." ing, how unlikely it would have seemed are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice."1 On Friday, April 6, he carried me to dine at a club, which, at his desire, had been lately... | |
 | Theology - 1874 - 404 pages
...pounds, and he worked up his language to a height worthy the occasion. " We are not here," he said, " to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Mrs. Thrale, with her usual indefatigable energy, attended the sale, and arranged beforehand that,... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...exciseman he so cordially detested ; and when asked what he thought the property was really worth, answered : " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing ruh beyond the dreams oj avarice." With all our good Doctor's learning, shrewdness, force of character,... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - English fiction - 1875 - 182 pages
...do you remember what Dr. Johnson said about Thrale's brewery, when the business was being sold ? ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' Do you hold literature as something less than beer, and are you going to limit my power of increasing... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1875 - 296 pages
...do you remember what Dr. Johnson said about Thrale's brewery, when the business was being sold ? " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Do you hold literature as something less than beer, and are you going to limit my power of increasing... | |
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