Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . any thing be more ridiculous than toteach a child Catos soliloquy, who does not know howmany pence there are in sixpence ? 387. Charity. The ladies at Stow-Hill would occasionally rebuke for the indiscriminate exercise of his charity toall who applied for it. There was that woman, saidone of them, to whom you yesterday gave half-a-crown,why she was at church to-day in long sleeves and ribands. Well, my dear, replied Johnson, and if it gave thewoman
Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . any thing be more ridiculous than toteach a child Catos soliloquy, who does not know howmany pence there are in sixpence ? 387. Charity. The ladies at Stow-Hill would occasionally rebuke for the indiscriminate exercise of his charity toall who applied for it. There was that woman, saidone of them, to whom you yesterday gave half-a-crown,why she was at church to-day in long sleeves and ribands. Well, my dear, replied Johnson, and if it gave thewoman pleasure, why should she not wear them ? 388. Gilbert Walmesley. He had long promised to write Mr. Walmesleys epi-taph, and Mrs. W. waited for it, in order to erect amonument to her husbands memory \ procrastination,however, one of the Doctors few failings, prevented itsbeing finished; he was engaged upon it in his last illness,and when the physicians, at his own request, informedhim of his danger, he pushed the papers from before him,saying, It was too late to write the epitaph of another,when he should so soon want one
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