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" It is a folly, a keeping me in misery, now to attempt to prolong life;' yet he was easily persuaded for the satisfaction of others to do or take anything thought proper for him. "
Memoirs of George Selwyn and His Contemporaries - Page 90
by John Heneage Jesse - 1902
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...the >alisfaction of others, to do or take any tiling bought proper for him. On Saturday he had icen ted lis Lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great lurry, and wished to have a little conversation...
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Works, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...any thing bought proper for him. On Saturday he had >een remarkably better, and we were not with'Ul some hopes of his recovery. "On Sunday about eleven in the forenoon, lis Lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great lurry, and wished to have a little conversation...
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The Church of England Magazine, Volume 7

1839 - 498 pages
...any thing thought proper for him. On Saturday he hüd been remarkably better, and we were not without hopes of his recovery. "On Sunday, about eleven in...his lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great heaviness, and wUhed to have a little conversation with me, in order to divert it. He then proceeded...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...the satisfaction of others, to do or take any thing bought proper for him. On Saturday he had >een end you thiity guineas between Michaelmas and Christmas,...which I will give you an account when 1 come to tow us Lordship sent for me, and said he felt о great lurry, and wished to have a little conversation...
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Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton, from 1734 to ..., Volume 1

George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 422 pages
...dissolution not to be lingering, he waited for it with resignation. He said, ' It is a folly, a keeping me in misery, now to attempt to prolong life;' yet...his Lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great melancholy, and wished to have a little conversation with me in order to divert it. He then proceeded...
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Memoirs and Correspondence from 1734 to 1773, Volume 2

George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 478 pages
...dissolution not to be lingering, he waited for it with resignation. He said, ' It is a folly, a keeping me in misery, now to attempt to prolong life ;' yet...his Lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great melancholy, and wished to have a little conversation with me in order to divert it. He then proceeded...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 78

1846 - 614 pages
...dissolution not to be lingering, he waited for it with resignation. He said, " It is a folly, a keeping me in misery now, to attempt to prolong life ;" yet...his Lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great melancholy, and wished to have a little conversation with me in order to divert it. He then proceeded...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 78

1846 - 604 pages
...dissolution not to be lingering, he waited lor it with resignation. He said, " It is a folly, a keeping me iu misery now, to attempt to prolong life ;" yet he was...his Lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great melancholy, and wished to have a little conversation with me in order to divert it. He then proceeded...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 78

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1846 - 606 pages
...attempt to prolong life ;" yet he was easily persuaded, for the satisfaction of others, to do or lake anything thought proper for him. On Saturday he had...his Lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great melancholy, and wished to have a little conversation with me in order to divert it. He then proceeded...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...the satisfaction of others, to do or take any tiling bought proper for him. On Saturday he had >een remarkably better, and we were not without some hopes of his recovery. in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties...
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