 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...resolves, he remarked " Sir, Hell is paved with good intentions." 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. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. While grief is fresh, every attempt... | |
 | 1884 - 186 pages
...a foolish way of not minding, or pretending " ' not to mind, what they eat. For my own part Ï " ' mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully...he who does not mind his " ' belly will hardly mind anything else ! '" In fact the great sage seeme to have been in an unusually good temper during his... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my own part, I mind my belly very studiously and carefully ; for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." Speaking of breakfasts, JOHNSON said, " it was a meal in which the Scots, whether of... | |
 | Medicine - 1898 - 508 pages
...such an essential organ when he said, " some people have a foolish way of not minding or pretending to mind what they eat. For my part I mind my belly...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." Robbie Burns, most probably after a night spent with his toon companions at the village... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...or pretending not to mind, what Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously...that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." ' Boswell's Life of Johnson, \. 7. • ' JOHNSON often said, " that wherever the dinner... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 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 «lse." He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe, and he was for the moment, not only serious,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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." He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophe, and he was for the moment, not only serious,... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - Games - 1889 - 358 pages
...same way of thinking, for " some people," as he remarked on one occasion, " 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." No one relished good eating more than Johnson, and when at table he was totally absorbed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 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.' He now appeared to me yean Bull philosophe, and he was for the The whole world is put... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 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.' He now appeared to me Jtan Bull phihsophc, and he was for the The whole world is put... | |
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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... 
