 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...attained any great extent of practice, or eminence of popularity. A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they tliiit reject liim... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 532 pages
...therefore, and with a strict conformity to truth, remarked, that, " a physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 pages
...attained any great extent of practice, or eminence of popularity* A physician in a great city seems to be the mere play-thing of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 430 pages
...attained any great extent of practice, or eminence of popularity. A physician in a great city seems to be the mere play-thing of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...attained any great extent of practice, or eminence of popularity. A physician in a great city seems to be the mere play-thing of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...attained any great extent of practice, or eminence of popularity. A physician in a great city seems to be the mere play-thing of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...attained any great extent of practice, or eminence of popularity. A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...attained any great extent of practice, or eminence of popularity. A pbysician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual: they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know... | |
 | 1824 - 574 pages
...It would form a fine commentary on the observation of Johnson, that " a physician in a great city is the mere play-thing of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know not his... | |
 | William Wadd - 1824 - 288 pages
...adorned him, as a Physician and a man. Dr. Johnson has said, that " a Physician in a great city is the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part casual ; they that employ him know not his excellence, they that reject him know not his... | |
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A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer... 
