 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...among you, therefore, has one chance more to escape punishment, than those who are tried among us '." At supper this night he talked of good eating with...mind any thing else." He now appeared to me Jean Butt philosophe, and he was for the moment, not only serious, but vehement. Yet I have heard him, upon other... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...ever read of the law of Holland, Johnson must have been mistaken. Johnson's position is to be found in At supper this night he talked of good eating with...hardly mind any thing else." He now appeared to me Jean Bullphilosophe, and he was for the moment, not only serious, but vehement. Yet I have heard him, upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...than those who are tried among us." (') At supper this night he talked of good eating with nncommoh 'satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish...belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look (1) [" By a law of Holland, the criminal's confession is essential to a capital punishment; no other... | |
 | William Kitchiner - 1836 - 432 pages
...his biographer Boswell tells us, " was a man of very nice discernment in the science of Cookery," and talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction....mind my belly very studiously and very carefully, and I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind any thing else." The Doctor... | |
 | Ephraim Banks - 1838 - 436 pages
...in good eating: that, at least, is my philosophy. " Some people, 11 says the great doctor Johnson, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not...does not mind his belly will hardly mind any thing el«e." This same doctor Johnson is said to have made many wise observations: but this, I sup. pose... | |
 | 1859 - 868 pages
...it like a savage : he ate till his veins swelled and his face perspired. " Some people," he said, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not...mind my belly very studiously and very carefully." So he ate ravenously and with a voracious relish. If a friend asked him to a plain dinner, he was displeased... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...read of the law of Holland, Johnson must have been mistaken. Johnson's position is to be found in 208 At supper this night he talked of good eating with...mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; lor I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind any thing else." He now appeared... | |
 | 1846 - 782 pages
...separate, not without a maxim (so we may safely call it) from the great moralist of his age : " Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not...eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind any thing else."* Dr. Johnson.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...among you, therefore, has one chance more to escape punishment, than those who are tried among us." (') At supper this night he talked of good eating with...belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look (1) [" By a law of Holland, the criminal's confession is essential to a capital punishment ; no other... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...By a law of Holland, the criminal'* confeislon li to a capital punishment ; no other eTidence being wax 3 Bull philotophe, and he was for the moment, not only serious, but vehement. Yet I have heard him, upon... | |
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At supper this night he talked of good eating- with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look... 
