 | John Wilson - 1904 - 532 pages
...maun just * Marrow — equal. t " Some people," says Dr. Samuel Johnson, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat....studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, hat he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else." — BOSWELL'S Life, chap. xvii.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1905 - 910 pages
...his idol, lie frankly enjoyed the pleasures of the table. ' For my part/ was Johnson's declaration, ' I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully;...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.' In somewhat the same vein Boswell acknowledges, ' I am myself a lover of wine, and... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 602 pages
...considered as a favour to an accused person; for no man is put to the torture there, unless there 's as much evidence against him as would amount to conviction...moment, not only serious but vehement. Yet I have hean? him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their... | |
 | Henry T. Finck - Gastronomy - 1913 - 640 pages
...short, the family is somehow grossly wrong." To Boswell he said: "Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat....studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it that he that does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." Yet on other occasions Boswell heard... | |
 | American fiction - 1914 - 546 pages
...matters of health was, of course, full of wisdom. "Some people," he said, "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 remarks that in saying this he was "not only serious but vehement" He easily... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...uncommon satisfaction. "Some people (said he), have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending [2070 oil a grace, Or raise a pimple on a beaute 320 321 of people who were anxious to grat- [2080 ify their palates; and the 206 th number of his Rambler... | |
 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 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....any thing else." He now appeared to me, Jean Bull philosophc, and he was for the moment, not only serious, but vehement. Yet I have heard him, upon other... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...uncommon satisfaction. "Some people (said he), have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending [2070 not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my...mind any thing else." He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophc, and he was for the moment, not only serious, but vehement. Yet I have heard him, upon other... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1922 - 562 pages
..."Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they cat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and...mind any thing else." He now appeared to me Jean Bull phtlosophe, and he was for the moment, not only serious but vehement. Yet I have heard him, upon other... | |
 | Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - Biology - 1923 - 240 pages
...to the pleasures of the table. Boswell records that he said: Some people 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. i> si. 1 He was a voracious feeder and rather a coarse one. When at table, he was totally... | |
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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... 
