...rise. 2. He was obliged to leave them. 3. Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. 4. A man will turn over half a library to make one book. 5. To err is human; to forgive, divine. • 6. He improved by trying to improve. 7. In order to carry...

..."The greater part of an author's time," said Dr. Johnson, "is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." . . . Yet the labor of preparation is not, after all, more important than that of final revision. The...

... THE GIFT Mr. and Mrs. ; I • . ' "M \AI ASK ME ANOTHER! The Question Book "A man will turn over half a library to make one book." — SAMUEL JOHNSON. "We'll tell the cock-eyed world." — THE AUTHORS. cftsk (Me eftnotfiev! THE QUESTION...

...perhaps too mechanically, " The greater part of an author's time is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." Addison collected three folios of materials before publishing the first number of the " Spectator."...

...even more forcefully. "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." The great reader was also a collector of books, who wrote a proposal and a number of learned bibliographical...

...challenge of the times . . . and the problems of his own personal life. m Samuel Johnson once said, "A man will turn over half a library to make one book." Several libraries were turned over, thousands of books and papers were searched, for the material that...

...English prime minister 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. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer All books are either dreams or swords,...

...is the work of countless previous authors, encyclopaedists and lexicographers. When Dr Johnson said: 'A man will turn over half a library to make one book' one would surely be forgiven for assuming that he — great dictionarymaker that he was — was thinking...

...REGINALD GREGORY KAIN 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. Samuel Johnson, April 6, 1775 for RANDY PAGE and NELL PAINTER Besides these Soveraign Powers, Divine,...

...Yale Edition, vol. 10. 23 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. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. lohnson,...