 | Noah Porter - 1882 - 528 pages
...reminds us of the sonorous language of Johnson when seeking a purchaser for Mr. Thrale's brewery : " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." But let us follow Mr. Mill. When we come back to the white paper, ie, to " the... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pages
...his friend Thrale's brewery, what be considered to be the value of the property, Johnson replied, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Mr. Windham had been appointed secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1883 - 426 pages
...Collector. You know the rest. Dr. Johnson, acting as executor in selling the distillery of Mr. Thrale, said: "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers...vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." l If the President did not use the sounding phrase of the great English moralist,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1883 - 426 pages
...Collector. You know the rest. Dr. Johnson, acting as executor in selling the distillery of Mr. Thrale, said: "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers...vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." 1 If the President did not use the sounding phrase of the great English moralist,... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1883 - 488 pages
...occasion of the sale, which he attended as an executor, though often quoted, are worthy of repetition : 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' Two vats are shown, each of which can contain 3300 barrels of liquor. The water... | |
 | 1883 - 418 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, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." So the founders of this Society looked to the "potentiality" of the few seeds they... | |
 | Famous people - 1883 - 552 pages
...being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Mrs. Thrale left Streatham, and Johnson had to leave it also. Some little unpleasantness... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 pages
...sale of Thrale's brewery, the value of the property to be disposed of : " 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." Who, but Johnson, in his most comfortable and self-satisfied mood, could have said... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...brewery, then about to be disposed of to Barclay and Perkins, he returned the memorable answer: "Sir, we are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Well, sir, I will acknowledge that I have a better opinion of him than I once had,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...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 boilers and vats, but the 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... | |
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We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. 
