 | Marion Harland - 1898 - 305 páginas
...December /j, /7<5V." Beneath a pompous, eulogistic sentence we read one more pithy and interesting : " No, sir ! there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness has been produced, as by a good tavern." — JOHNSON. The round spots of darker brown upon the wainscot... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898
...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do who are excited with the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899
...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do who are excited with the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing... | |
 | James Douglas - 1900 - 360 páginas
...than a palace in a foreign land." — Meer Boostum, Ameer of Kind, at Sassvvr in tin- lickluin. 184.i. "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced as a good tavern or inn." — Dr. Johnson. 1776. FROM these pessimist notions let... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 726 páginas
...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer said to love his neighbour as himself. He that voluntarily continues dp, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, Sir, there... | |
 | Thomas Wilson Reid - 1901 - 200 páginas
...won the admiration of his own age, and remain as recommendations to the reverence of posterity. " ' No, sir ! there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness has been produced as by a good tavern.—JOHNSON.' " In this same room, with its floor as ' nicely... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...but then less is learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. ibid. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so mnch happiness is prodnced as by a good tavern or inn.8 chap. Hi. nre. i See Herbert, page 205. Do... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904
...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer 904 hi proportion as they please. No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which... | |
 | 1905
...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity...; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by men, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." And nearly identical ideas... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905
...the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do who are excited with the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir; there is nothing... | |
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... were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. 
