...thing which he somehow happened to say. " You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson," he remarked one day. " I have tried, too, in my time to be a philosopher...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in." It was very likely the one good remark of a lifetime and a curious accident has caused it to live for...

...do it. His case is the converse of that friend of Dr. Johnson's who said, GOLFERS OF TWO COUNTRIES 'I have tried too, in my time, to be a philosopher;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.' Taylor, as pleasant a companion as may be found at other times, is indeed a formidable example of concentration...

...cheerful idiot, Boswell, to the melancholy Johnson. "You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too, to be a philosopher, but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in"! "That's just it," says Sheehan, "cheerfulness and philosophy won't go hand in hand. The weight and...

...uproarious. I can boast of no deep philosophy, for I feel, like Dr. Johnson's simple friend Edwards, that ' I have tried, too, in my time, to be a philosopher,...know how — cheerfulness was always breaking in.' Neither is it the point of view of a profound and erudite student, with a deep belief in the efficacy...

...many years previously at Oxford, said to him (17 April 1778), »You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson, l have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but,...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.« (J. BOSWELL, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1906, vol. II, 218). 32 A line of Charles Wesley's. Die Schule...

...peculiarities of human nature than Bacon, Locke, Plato, Aristotle, and all the rest of the sages put together'. I have tried, too, in my time, to be a philosopher;...I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking through. OLIVER EDWARDS TO DR JOHNSON Edwards was in college with Johnson at Oxford. He made this remark...

...derive an adjective from Samuel Johnson's reply to the observation that he had become a philosopher: 'I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher;...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. ' ' 1 his IS reminiSCCm of David Hume, although it is made the more striking by the fact that Johnson...

...is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, philosopher I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher but,...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. Oliver Edwards (1711-1791) English lawyer Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo;...

...comparing their lives. "You are a philosopher," the man said to Dr. Johnson. "I have tried in my time, too, to be a philosopher, but I don't know how; cheerfulness was always breaking through" ' (The Philosophy of Laughter and Humour, ed. John Morreal, p. 1). Humorous allusions* to...

...after nearly half a century, said in the course of conversation, 'You are a philosopher. Dr Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but...don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in'. Johnson showed no particular displeasure; and when Boswell implied that Edwards's garrulity was the...