 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...:—" But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them; for I am told they were good beings ? " JOHNSON :—" I believe they might be good beings, but they were not...animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden." We are told that Lord Elibank used to repeat this as an illustration uncommonly happy; but we must... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 710 pages
...it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings? JOHNSON. I believe they night be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the...University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in a field ; but we turn her out of a garden. — Lord Elibank used to repeat this as an illustration... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 326 pages
...: " But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings ? " JOHNSON : " I believe they might be good beings, but they were not...to repeat this as an illustration uncommonly happy. Desirous'of calling Johnson forth to talk and exercise his wit, though I should myself he the object... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 792 pages
...true point ' escaped Mrs. Piozzi, he tells in the following words (the date was April 15, 1772): — 'Desirous of calling Johnson forth to talk, and exercise his wit, though I myself should be the object of it, I resolutely ventured to undertake the defence of convivial indulgence... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...BOSWKLL: 'But was it not hard, sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings?' JOHNSON: 'I believe they might be good beings, but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow in л very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden.' Lord Elibank used to repeat... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
..." But was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings ? "—JOHNSON : " I believe they might be good beings, but they were not...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." Boswell defended drinking on the ground of the well-known maxim in vino veritas. JOHNSON : " Why, Sir,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 376 pages
...Bosiuell: 'But was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings. Johnson : ' I believe they might be good beings, but they were not...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden.' The case of these six Methodists throws so much light on the state of Oxford last century, that though... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - Church and state - 1878 - 606 pages
...willing to be taught, but presume to teach ? Sir, they were examined and found to be ignorant fellows. They might be good beings, but they were not fit to be at Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in a field, but we turn her out of a garden.' 4 What evidence... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true. A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. To illustrate his position, that it was proper that six Methodists, who insisted on public praying... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...BOSWELL. "But was it not hard, sir, to expel them ? for I am told they were good beings." JOHNSON. " I believe they might be good beings, but they were not...a garden." Lord Elibank used to repeat this as an uncommonly happy illustration. XXXVII. FREE WILL. T)RAY, sir," asked Dr. Mayo, "have you read Edwards... | |
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I believe they might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden. 
