 | Samuel Fletcher Hulton - 1909 - 474 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Arthur Edward Phillips - 1909 - 394 páginas
...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. —... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar - 1909 - 88 páginas
...— 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...the absence of intellectual substructure in Methodism. Methodists at Oxford are like the cow — ' a very good animal in the field: but we turn her out of a garden.'1 But in his own life he represents the reconciliation of both elements in faith — intellect... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1910 - 268 páginas
...willing to be taught, but will presume to teach ? Where is religion to be taught but at an University ? I believe they might be good beings, but they were not...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." 1 The best defence of the University authorities is, that these students admitted that they had attended... | |
 | 1910 - 356 páginas
...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...animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.' Boswell's Johnson. Clarendon Press. ALL the six were members of St. Edmund Hall. The Principal Methodists... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar - 1910 - 300 páginas
...— 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... | |
 | 1910 - 356 páginas
...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 fit to be in me University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.'... | |
 | Slason Thompson - 1911 - 512 páginas
...the mob-spirit without regard to future consequences of great moment. "A cow," says Dr. Johnson, " is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden." There are many other constituents in the complex in which we imist settle our public questions. The... | |
 | 1903 - 1038 páginas
...to be taught, but will presume to teach ? Where is religion to be taught but in a university? ... I believe they might be good beings; but they were not...animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden." There is no better illustration of Johnson's innate conservatism than these words. He had great reverence... | |
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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. 
