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" A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer... "
The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 163
1803
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 pages
...be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual : they that employ him, -know not his excellence; they that reject him, know not his defjcience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfactions of the medical world for half...
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prefaces biographical and critical to the works of the english poets

SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...plaything AKENSIDE. 9 thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual : they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfactions of the medical world for half...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 pages
...the mere plaything thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual: they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute obfervcr, who had looked on the tranfactions of the medical world for half...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual : they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfaclions of the medical world for half...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...be the mere play-thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual: they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute dbferver, who had looked on the tranfadUons of the medical world for half a...
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Beispielsammlung zur Theorie und Literatur der Schönen ..., Volume 8, Part 2

Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1795 - 682 pages
...the mere play-thing of fortune; hie degree of reputation is , for the moft part , totally cafual : they that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his déficience. By an acute obferver , who had looked on the transactions o£ the medical world for half a century , a...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
....the •mere plaything of fortune; his degree of -reputation is for the most part, totally casual. They 'that employ him know not his excellence ; they <that -reject him, know not his dciicience. By an observer, who had looked on the transactions of .the medical world for half a century,...
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Essays on Professional Education

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 pages
...plaything of fortune," says Dr. Johnson : " his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual ; they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him " know not his deficience. By any acute observer, who had " looked on the transactions of the medical world for the...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him knownot his dcficience."* Another obstacle to the acquirement of practice which will be ever felt by...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 532 pages
...be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual : they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience."* Another obstacle to the acquirement of practice which will be ever felt by a man of genius...
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