Show johnson saw no good qualities in merchant doctor Jo tinon was bitterly brej against all merchants sas the market for exchange his famous biographer koswell once asked him what was the reason tor his anger at the trader who achieved opulence and johnson replied why sir the reason Is though I 1 do not undertake to prove that Is a rea son we see no qualities in trade tint should entitle such a man to orlay we are not angry at a soldier getting riches bebau we see that ho possesses qualities which we have not if a man returns from battle having lost one hand with the other full of gold we feel that bo decenes the gold but we cannot think that a fellow sit ting all day at a desk Is entitled to get above us but replied boswell may we not suppose a merchant to be a man of an enlarged mind such as addelson in the spectator describes sir andrew freeport to have been I 1 5 v X t I 1 t why belr johnson we may up poe any fictitious character we may suppose a philosophical day la borer who li happy in reflecting that bv his labor he contributes to the for of the earth and the support of his fellow creatures but we find no anch philosophical day laborer A merchant ma perhaps be a man of an enlarged mind but there ts nothing in trade connected with a large mind |