Life of Johnson.
T COULD NOT but be somewhat diverted by hearing Johnson talk in a pompous manner of his new office, and particularly
of the concerns of the brewery, which it was at last resolved should be sold. Lord Lucan tells a very good story, which, if not precisely exact, is certainly characteristical: that when the sale of Thrale’s brewery was going forward, Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his button-hole, like an excise-man; and on being asked 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.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20567, 19 March 1935, Page 6
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124Life of Johnson. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20567, 19 March 1935, Page 6
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