 | 1882 - 208 pages
...miserable creature. He is like a man of whom it was once said that he well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Let us give full value in service to those whom we serve, " not with eye-service, as men-pleasers,... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...in the liberty of choice or change.' Misc. Works, i. 54. Of one of his tutors that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform.' Ib. p. 58. Boswell, post, end of Nov. 1784, blames Dr. Knox for 'ungraciously attacking his venerable... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...literary character did not command the respect of the college. Dr. well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies, and watching over the behaviour of his disciple, I was never summoned... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 470 pages
...the anonymous person is sufficiently graphic : — "Dr. * * * well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies and watching over the behavior of his disciple, I was never summoned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...literary character did not command the respect of the college. Dr. well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies and watching over the behaviour of his disciple, I was never summoned... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 462 pages
...the anonymous person is sufficiently graphic : — "Dr. * * * well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies and watching over the behavior of his disciple, I was never summoned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 pages
...literary character did not command the respect of the college. Dr. well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies and watching over the behaviour of his disciple, I was never summoned... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 482 pages
...of the anonymous person is sufficiently graphic. ' Dr. * * * * well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies and watching over the behaviour of his disciple, I was never summoned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...literary character did not command the respect of the college. Dr. well remembered that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies and watching over the behaviour of his disciple, I was never summoned... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 424 pages
...presidency was vacated, and his successor was remarkable only for remembering that he had a salary to receive, and only forgot that he had a duty to perform. Instead of guiding the studies and watching over the behaviour of his disciples, I was never summoned... | |
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I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to... 
