 | James Boswell - 1901 - 448 pagine
...examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows.' BOSWELL : ' But, was it not hard, sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings ? ' JOHNSON : ' I believe they might he good beings ; but they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pagine
...c. mo. I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. chap. ««. 1773. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden. nnd. Mnch may be made of a Scotchman if he be canght young. ibid. A man may write at any time if he... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 pagine
...1770. I am a great friend to public amusements ; for they keep people from vice. chap, rfif. 7772. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden. ftid. Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. ibid. A man may write at any time if he... | |
 | Huber Gray Buehler - 1906 - 334 pagine
...sentences are simple, complex, or compound: — 1. In the multitude of counselors there is safety. 2. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn hei out of a garden. 3. Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. 4. Flow gently,... | |
 | Alfred Denis Godley - 1908 - 388 pagine
...not hard to expel them? for I am told they were good beings." " I believe," replied Johnson, " that they might be good beings, but they were not fit to...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." The Doctor's defence of the Heads does not hold water. They themselves make Methodism, and not ignorance,... | |
 | Alfred Denis Godley - 1908 - 440 pagine
...not hard to expel them? for I am told they were good beings." " I believe,' replied Johnson, "that they might be good beings, but they were not fit to be in the University erf Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." The Doctor's... | |
 | Samuel Fletcher Hulton - 1909 - 474 pagine
...examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows.' Boswell : ' But was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings.' Johnson...University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in a field, but we turn her out of a garden.' " One day when Dr. Johnson and Sir Robert Chambers were... | |
 | 1909 - 860 pagine
...hard, sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings." Johnson replied, "I believe they were good beings, but they were not fit to be in the University...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." Less familiar than this quotation is the story of the Head of an Oxford college who, many years later,... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar - 1909 - 88 pagine
...— Johnson 8 I am a great friend to public amusements for they keep people from vice — Johnson 9 A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of the garden — Johnson 10 Mr Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance for he had only one idea, and... | |
 | Arthur Edward Phillips - 1909 - 394 pagine
...William Shakespeare. 27. An intense hour will do more than dreamy years. — Henry Ward Beecher. 28. A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of the garden. — Samuel Johnson. 29. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. —... | |
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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. 
