| Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...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...through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Ibid., B, I, 300. SIR, I look upon every... | |
| Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less. Francis Bacon m 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. . . . To let friendship die away by negligence... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...repr. in Works of Samuel ¡ohnson, vol. 2, ed. by W. |. Bale, John M. Bullid and LF Powell, 1963). 24 gian Siluationist philosopher. The Revolution of Everyday Life, ch. 2, scl. 1 (1967; Ir. 1983). Sco л!» A man. Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84), English author,... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 10, Julian P. Boyd (1954). Letter, Oct. 12, 1 786, to Maria Cosway. 17 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. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author,... | |
| William L. Fox - 1997 - 606 pages
...taking to heart Dr. Johnson's sage advice to James Boswell: "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 a constant repair." His ability to relate equally to all... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Boswell - Life A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. 5080 Boswell - Life purposes. STEINEM Gloria 193411091 We are becoming...men we wanted to marry. 11092 The first problem fo A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. 5081 Boswell - Life Norway, too. has noble... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1998 - 1540 pages
...at 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 lefi alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.' The celebrated Mr. Wilkes,... | |
| Andrew Farmer - Religion - 1998 - 180 pages
...will always love me no matter what," and having "someone ii 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.1 99 — Samuel Johnson IAt which of these... | |
| Paul Martin, Martin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1999 - 378 pages
...relationships, foreshadowing the loneliness of his old age: 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. How does it work? It is not so much our... | |
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