 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 ページ
...they do not shorten it. The most eager peruser of news is tired before he has completed hislabour ; and many a man, who enters the coffee-house in his night-gown and slippers, is cafled away to his shop, or his dinner, before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered... | |
 | 1803 - 196 ページ
...of the evening are brought again in the morning. These repetitions, indeed, waste time, but they do not shorten it. The most eager pursuer of news is...before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered by Reaumur, that spiders might make silk, if they could be persuaded to live in peace... | |
 | 1903 - 606 ページ
...supply the coffee-houses with customers and newspapers with readers. ' Many a man,' said Johnson, ' who enters the coffee-house in his nightgown ' and...before ' he has well considered the state of Europe.' The increasing desire for something fresher and larger than the slow newsletter had been ministered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 ページ
...morning. These repetitions, indeed, waste time, but they do not shorten it. The most eager peruser of news is tired before he has completed his labour...before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered by Reaumur, that spiders might make silk, if they could be persuaded to live in peace... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 ページ
...morning. These repetitions, indeed, waste time, but they do not shorten it. The most eager peruser of news is tired before he has completed his labour...before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered by Reaumur, that spiders might make silk, if they could be persuaded to live in peace... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 ページ
...morning. These repetitions, indeed, waste time, but they do not shorten it. The most eager peruser of news is tired before he has completed his labour...before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered by Reaumur, that spiders might make silk, if they could be persuaded to live in peace... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 ページ
...morning. These repetitions, indeed, waste time, but they do not shorten it. The most eager peruser of news is tired before he has completed his labour...before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered by Reamur, that spiders might make silk, if they could be persuaded to live in peace... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 ページ
...the morning. These repetitions, indeed waste time, but they do not shorten it. The most eager peruser of news is tired before he has completed his labour...before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered by Reaumur, that spiders might make silk, if they could be persuaded to live in peace... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 ページ
...the morning. These repetitions, indeed waste time, but they do not shorten it. The most eager peruser of news is tired before he has completed his labour...before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered by Reaumur, that spiders might make silk, if they could be persuaded to live in peace... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 ページ
...morning. These repetitions, indeed, waste time, but they do not shorten it. The most eager peruser of news is tired before he has completed his labour;...before he has well considered the state of Europe. It is discovered by Reaumur, that spiders might make silk, if they could be persuaded to live in peace... | |
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Thus, journals are daily multiplied without increase of knowledge. The tale of the morning paper is told again in the evening, and the narratives of the evening are bought again in the morning. These repetitions, indeed, waste time, but they do not shorten... 
