 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 pages
...people,' said he, ' have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For ray part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.' He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosofhc, and he was for the The whole world is put... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my own part, I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." He now appeared to me jean Bull philosophe, and he was for the moment not only serious... | |
 | John Wilson - Dialogue - 1892 - 438 pages
...a table-cloth. Bewaur the tray. 1 "Some people," says Dr Samuel Johnson, "have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat....that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else." — BOSWELL'B Life, chap. xvii. North. A few anchovies, such as I used to enjoy with... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...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....that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." ' Life, i. 467. ' He who makes his belly his business will quickly come to have a conscience... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...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....hardly mind any thing else." He now appeared to me jfean Bull philosophe, and he was, for the moment, not only serious but vehement. Yet I have heard... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...especially the affectation of indifference to the pleasures of the table. " For my part," he said, " I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully,...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." Avowing this principle he would innocently give himself the airs of a scientific epicure.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my own part, 1 Johnson has stood forth in the foremost rank of his...testimony of such a man, impertinence must be abashed, anything else." He now appeared to me Jean BuU philosophe, and he was for the moment not only serious... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...especially the affectation of indifference to the pleasures of the table. " For my part," he said, " I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully,...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." Avowing this principle he would innocently give himself the airs of a scientific epicure.... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - Eighteenth century - 1902 - 616 pages
...people," he said, " have a foolish way of not minding what they eat ; for my part, I mind my belly very carefully, for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything." In the same spirit he would remark, after his return from a party, " It was a good dinner... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not ading anything else.' He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe, and he was, for the moment, not only serious... | |
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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... 
