 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...saints attend. * * * * I would do everything to serve a friend. Sweet language will multiply friends. If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 pages
...a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair" The celebrated Mr. VVilkes, whose notions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...of himself, it will be impossible for him to form any union at alL" He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds: "If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair." Amid the cold obscurity of Johnson's early life... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 pages
...period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, "If a man docs not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair" The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery. Rambler, No. 99. • • IF a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Boswell's Life of Johnson, i. 300. • •... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery. Rambler, No. 99. • • • Ira man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. BoswelPs Life of Johnson, i. 300. • •... | |
 | 1888 - 252 pages
...but in adversity they come without invitation. Theophraitus. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. Johnson. % Friends are as companions on a journey,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...a subsequent period of his life, the opinion of Johnson himself. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, " If a. man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...has supplied the place. 1872 Johnson : The Idler. No. 23. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. 1873 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson.... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1895 - 376 pages
...require constant cultivation to maintain them in vigour. Dr Johnson observed to Sir Joshua Eeynolds : " If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will very soon find himself alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." To friendship... | |
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If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. 
