 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...MDXXXV1I. When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly: the greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Johnson. MDXXXVIn. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...sir; when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly '. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man...will turn over half a library, to make one book." I argued warmly against the judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect judge, who... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pages
...sir ; when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly l. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man...will turn over half a library, to make one book." I argued warmly against the judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect judge, who... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 pages
...when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. ( ' ) The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man...will turn over half a library, to make one book." I argued warmly against the judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect judge, who... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...Sir; when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. (') The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library, to make one book." I argued warmly against the judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect judge, who... | |
 | 1844 - 660 pages
...Doctor Johnson has told us that — " the greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, is order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." We may therefore conclude, that as we have ocular proof of our becoming a writing Service, we are also... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pages
...Sir, when a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. 1 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." I argued warmly against the Judges trading, and mentioned Hale as an instance of a perfect Judge, who... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...MDXXXVIL When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly : the greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Johnson. MDXXXVIIL Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...man,' he said, ' writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, be was gathering fresh... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 pages
...man,' he said, ' writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.' If, however, he did not complete his compositions before he put them upon paper, he was gathering fresh... | |
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. 
