 | 1861 - 898 oldal
...We know, too, how upon this occasion he delivered himself of that magnificently Jolmsonic saying : ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' The business passed into the hands of the Barclays, and by the continuous associations... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 572 oldal
...what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, ' We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' " The executors had legacies of £200 each ; Johnson, to the surprise of his... | |
 | 1861 - 546 oldal
...pounds, and he worked up his language to a height worthy of the occasion. " We are not here," he said, "to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Mrs. Thrale, .with her usual indefatigable energy, attended the sale, and had... | |
 | 1861 - 634 oldal
...managers, the Doctor was asked what he supposed the brewery was worth. " We are not here," he replied, " to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing ricli beyond the dreams of avarice." Of the sale the lady herself tells. She had, when her husband... | |
 | 1864 - 522 oldal
...nnd Co., for 135.000/. [Ibid., vol. ip 432.] ' We are not here,' said Johnson, on the day of sale, ' to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.' [Ibid., vol. iv. p. 82.] '- Eobert Barclay, the first of the name in the firm... | |
 | 1899 - 974 oldal
...monopoly profits of the trade? We all remember Dr. Johnson's remarks upon the sale of Thrale's Brewery : " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." His words exactly fit the case of any flourishing brewery to-day. What is to... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 oldal
...going about, with his ink-bottle stuck in his coat, at the sale of Thrale's brewery, and saying, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." You do not see how this applies, do you ? But I said to myself, We are not... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1868 - 340 oldal
...going about, with his ink-bottle stuck in his coat, at the sale of Thrale's brewery, and saying, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." You do not see how this applies, do you ? But I said to myself, We are not... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1869 - 402 oldal
...interpreted, signifies in ' the midst of large vessels of the kind which Johnson described as ' not a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice ; ' and, what is more to the purpose, almost under the shadow of the house in... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1872 - 712 oldal
...what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the POTENTIALITY of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." This latter phrase was merely a Johnsonian expression for the goodwill of the... | |
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We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. 
