 | Edwin Osgood Grover - 1911 - Страниц: 72
...assist him in his necessities. — Italian Proverb J» Jt Jt 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 friendships in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson Jf it Jt you write a friendly letter? ;t now It... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - Страниц: 346
...did not shelter them no one else would, and they would be lost for want." But he had other reasons. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds : " If a man does not...A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."2 "Sir," he said to Boswell, " I love the acquaintance of young people ; because, in the first... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - Страниц: 612
...and his case at forty-five was singularly unhappy, unless the circle of his friends was very narrow. He said to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 'If a man does not...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' In July this year he had formed some scheme of mental improvement, the particular purpose of which... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - Страниц: 1476
...175S. I am glad that he thanks God for anything. ibid. If a man does not make new acquaintance!! as ho advances through life, he, will soon find himself...left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. ibid. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. chap.... | |
 | Frank Crane - 1920 - Страниц: 328
...currents of destiny bear us cast and west. So Dr. Johnson said, "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." Human relationships are mostly hail and good-bye. We should not grow sickly sentimental over this,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - Страниц: 1422
...injures me. HOMER— Iliad. Bk. EX. L. 725. POPE'S trans. 10 If a man does not make new acquaintances, SAMUEL JOHNSON — Boswett's Life. (1755) 11 Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's... | |
 | Harold Workman Williams - 1916 - Страниц: 516
..."No; he turned out to be an old school friend of mine, too." If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Samuel Johnson. They say, and I am glad they say, It is so; and it may be so; It may be just the... | |
 | Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - 1925 - Страниц: 188
...contrary to the virtue of friendship, as described by the ancient philosophers." To Reynolds he once said: "If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...should keep his friendship in constant repair." The wise and richly human conversation of Johnson would have been lost to mankind had not Boswell, his... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - Страниц: 280
...destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. Ibid., Idler, No. 23. IF a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances...Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Ibid., B, I, 300. SIR, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - Страниц: 414
...endearing elegance of female friendship. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English... | |
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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." The celebrated Mr. Wilkes, whose notions and habits of life were very opposite to his,... 
