 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.  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 235by John Hawkins - 1787 - 605 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...<that -reject him, know not his dciicience. By an observer, who had looked on the transactions of .the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the fortune of physicians. v Life of Akenfide. , PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. Nothing is so proper as the frequent publications... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...observed in his life of Akenside,* that " by an acute observer, who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the fortune of physicians." The remark is a good one, but the character of the extraordinary person of whom we are... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...inserted in his life of Akcnside, that by an acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the fortune of physicians." f With many of the most eminent medical men of his day Dr. Johnson had formed a close... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...By any acute observer, who had " looked on the transactions of the medical world for the last " half century, a very curious book might be written on the " Fortune of Physicians." Were parents and preceptors to believe with Dr. Johnson, that the reputation of physicians... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...inserted in his life of Akenside, that by an acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the fortune of physicians." f With many of the most eminent medical men of his day Dr. Johnson had formed a close... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...reject faim know not his déficience. By any acute observer, who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the Fortune of Physicians. Akenside appears not to have been wanting to his own success : he placed himself in view... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...reject him, know not his deficieace. By an acute observer, who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the Fortune of Physicians." Dr. Akenside died of a putrid fever, on the 23d of June, 1770, if the 49th year of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer, who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written on the " Fortune of Physicians." Akenside appears not to have been wanting to his own success : he placed himself in view... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...inserted in his life of Akenside, that by an acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written ou the fortune of physicians." f With many of the most eminent medical men of his day Dr. Johnson had... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...reject liim know not his deficiencc. By any acute observer, who had looked on Uie transactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book might be written ou the Fortune of Physicians. Akenside appears not to have been wanting to his own success : he placed... | |
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