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... Essays on Professional Education - Page 224by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 541 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 294 pages
...the mere plaything thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual: they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute obfervcr, who had looked on the tranfactions of the medical world for half a century, a very... | |
| SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...plaything AKENSIDE. 9 thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual : they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfactions of the medical world for half a century, a very... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual : they that employ him, -know not his excellence; they that reject him, know not his defjcience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfactions of the medical world for half... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...be the mere play-thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual: they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute dbferver, who had looked on the tranfadUons of the medical world for half a century, a very... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual : they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfaclions of the medical world for half a century, a very... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1795 - 682 pages
...the mere play-thing of fortune; hie degree of reputation is , for the moft part , totally cafual : they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his déficience. By an acute obferver , who had looked on the transactions o£ the medical world for half... | |
| English literature - 1798 - 554 pages
...to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the molt part totally cafual. They that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not hisdehciency." Dr. Brocklelby for fome time, and in lomc degree, fliared this fate. He had firft to... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...years later, he wrote : — ' 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 ; Burlington - gardens, with whom he and Mrs. Williams generally dined every Sunday. There was a talk... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...years later, he wrote : — ' 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 ; Burlington-gardens, Aetat. 48.] Johnson s friends in 1752. 281 Burlington - gardens, with whom he... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...or eminence of popularity. A physician in a great city seems to be the roere play thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally...that employ him know not his excellence; they that VOL. I. 4 £ reject reject him, know not his deficience. By any acute observer, who had looked on the... | |
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