 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...which he can make another thing. But this applies to very few of the species. My definition of Afan is, 'a Cooking animal.' The beasts have memory, judgment,...mind in a certain degree ; but no beast is a cook. The trick of the monkey using the cat's paw to roast a chestnut, is only a piece of shrewd malice in... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1810 - 438 pages
...a thing, by means of which he can make another thing. But this applies to very few of the species. My definition of Man is, "a Cooking Animal." The beasts...mind, in a certain degree : but no beast is a cook. The trick of the monkey using the cat's paw, to roast a chesnut, is only a piece of shrewd malice in... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 484 pages
...a thing, by means of which he can make another thing. But this applies to very few of the species. My definition of Man is, " a Cooking animal." The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree ; but no beast is a... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 492 pages
...a thing, by means of which he can make another thing. But this applies to very few of the species. My definition of Man is, " a Cooking animal." The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree ; but no beast is a... | |
 | John Galt - Acting and actors - 1831 - 324 pages
...considerable merit, on drawing and perspective. Boswell, the biographer of Johnson, in his Journal says, The beasts have memory, judgment, and all the faculties...mind, in a certain degree ; but no beast is a cook ; and Fournier, among other accomplishments, was certainly not a beast, for he dressed and sold alamode... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...applies to very few of the species. My definition of man is, "a cooking animal." The beasts have tamiory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain ilgree; but no beast is a cook. The trick of the monkey using the cat's paw to roast a chestnut is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...But this applies to very few of the species. My definition of man is, " a cooking animal." The beasls have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions...mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook. The trick of the monkey using the cat's paw to roast a chestnut is only > piece of shrewd malice in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...a thing, by means of which he can make another thing. Bat this applies to very few of the species. k. Take him as a poet, his ' Traveller ' is a very...sometimes too much the echo of his ' Traveller.' Wh The trick of the monkey using the cat's paw to roast a chestnut is only a piece of shrewd malice in... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...I'm tinapplies to very few of the species. My definition of man is, " u cooking animal." The beasls have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, iti a certain degree; but no beast is a cook. The trick of the monkey using the cat's paw to roast... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...means of which he can make another thing. But this applies to very few of the species. My définition of man Is, "a cooking animal." The beasts have memory,...mind, in a certain degree ; but no beast Is a cook. The trick of the monkey using the cat's paw to roast a chestnut Is only a piece of shrewd malice in... | |
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a tool-making animal," which is very well; for no animal but man makes a thing, by means of which he can make another thing. But this applies to very few of the species. My definition of man is, "a cooking animal. 
