 | 404 str.
...sinks in unforgotteu slumber to his grave. Dr. Johnson has observed, in his Life of Akenside, that " a physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything...fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most casual : they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficiencies.... | |
 | 1854 - 736 str.
...be found too often a very inferior judge of a professional man's true position and qualifications. " A physician in a great city seems to be the "mere plaything of fortune They that employ him know "not his excellence; they that reject him know not his " deficiencies ;"§... | |
 | 1907 - 322 str.
...life of Akenside that Johnson makes the statement that, "A physician in a great city seems to be the plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know not his deficience."... | |
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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... 
