 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1878 - 188 pages
...fine, I'll study till I make them mine By constant meditation." Dr. Johnson once said to Boswell, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." fie rarely lost a friend, except by death, and during this year his appointments were with the same... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1879 - 196 pages
...fine, I'll study till I make them mine By constant meditation." Dr. Johnson once said to Boswell, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." He rarely lost a friend, except by death, and during this year his appointments were with the same... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 pages
...then at us. Johnson uttered a conspicuously generous thing of his friend Sir Joshua, when he said, " Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." " In faults," said Goethe, " men are much alike ; in good qualities they differ." We readily perceive... | |
 | Grosvenor Gallery, Frederic George Stephens - 1883 - 126 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyric he concluded by saying. ' Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse.' " On account of his magnificent appearance and lofty stature... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyric he concluded by saying; " Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 814 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyric he concluded by saying, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you will find the most difficulty how to abuse." Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 454 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyric he concluded by saying, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir,...bounded by land on the other side, and, though there is the grandeur of a fleet, there is also the impression of there being a dockyard, the circumstances... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyrick he concluded by saying, 'Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse3.' Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest he had ever seen, — better than... | |
 | 1888 - 742 pages
...stress on both points. "Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir," he said at one time, "is the most invulnerable man 1 know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." "I know no man," he said at another time, " who has passed through life with more observation than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 pages
...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyric he concluded by saying, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...you would find the most difficulty how to. abuse." «»••* EARL OF ERKOL. 2<1 Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest he had ever... | |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse. 
