 | 1824 - 716 pages
...adorned him, as a physician and a man. " Dr. Johnson lias said, that ' a physirian in a «reat 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 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... | |
 | James Thacher - 1828 - 318 pages
...of success in obtaining practice in London, the biographer adds, " 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... | |
 | William Macmichael - 1830 - 386 pages
...VOLUME IS INSCRIBED. PREFACE. " A PHYSICIAN in a great city (says Johnson in his Life of Akenside) 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Baldwin - 1831 - 348 pages
...applicable to the present condition of the profession. He says, " 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... | |
 | 1831 - 470 pages
...Old Johnson has well observed, in his growling gloomy way, 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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1832 - 328 pages
...established reputation for learningand ingenuity." "Aphysician in a great city," says Johnson, " 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... | |
 | 1835 - 570 pages
...College, Washington, DC 1830. IT is a remark of Dr. Johnson, ' 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... | |
| |
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... 
