 | Leonard Benton Seeley - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 394 pages
...and pen in his buttonhole, like an excise man ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." ' Miss Burney thus writes of the day of the sale : ' Mrs. Thrale went early to town, to meet all the... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 548 pages
...and pen in his button-hole, like an excise-man ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed...here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the lighted in exercising his mind on the science of numbers.' The letter (ante, ii. 485) about the book-trade... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 412 pages
...time and space pant,' iv. 30. PARADOX. ' No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,' ii. 84. PARCEL. ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond i the dreams of avarice ' (Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. loo-l. PARENTS. ' Parents not in... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 398 pages
...and pen in his buttonhole, like an excise man ; 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 * Baretti, in a MS. note on the ' Piozzi Letters,' i. 369, says that ' the two last years of Thrale's... | |
 | 1901 - 672 pages
...pen in his button-hole, and, on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property to be disposed of, answered, ' We are not here to...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' " The power of acquiring wealth by the brewing trade was a reality ; and it was a reality not at once... | |
 | Niels G. Röling - Business & Economics - 1988 - 260 pages
...auctioned off the contents of the Anchor Brewery, he made the following promise: 'We are not here to sell boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' Dr Johnson was right 200 years ago, and there is abundant evidence that he still is today. Advertising... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - Religion - 1993 - 460 pages
...what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of. He replied, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." So the founders of this Society looked to the " potentiality " of the few seeds they were planting... | |
 | Jim Williamson - Technology & Engineering - 1994 - 818 pages
...combustion and confus'd events New-hatch'd to the woful time" [Shakespeare, t605] Plant manufacturers: " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice. " [Johnson, 1781] Boiler operators: "/ sell here, Sir, what all the world desires - POWER" [Boulton,... | |
 | John Brinckerhoff Jackson - Science - 1994 - 228 pages
...a living. When Dr. Johnson had the job of auctioning off the brewery of his friend Piozzi, he said, "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Remember that when you pass an auto junkyard. 13 Truck City The twentieth-century reality: architecture... | |
 | John Richardson - History - 2000 - 416 pages
...Thrale died this year. When Johnson was asked what he thought the value of the business was, he replied, 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats,...potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' The brewery had its origins in a brewhouse first noted in 1634, It was substantially enlarged by Edmund... | |
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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... 
