 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 oldal
...avarice, or there is stupidity; in short, the family is somehow grossly wrong; for," continued he, " a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner; and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things." ' Yet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 oldal
...avarice, or there is stupidity; in short, the family is somehow grossly wrong; for," continued he, " a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner; and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things."' Yet... | |
 | 1856 - 834 oldal
...generally a man of flaccid body, and of feeble mind ; as old Samuel Johnson authoritatively said, " Sir, a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner; and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things. Homo... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 oldal
...avarice, or there is stupidity; in short, the family is somehow grossly wrong : for," continued he, " a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner; and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should he suspected of inaccuracy in other things." One... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1858 - 448 oldal
...generally a man of flaccid body, and of feeble mind ; as old Samuel Johnson authoritatively said, "Sir, a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner ; and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things." Homo... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 oldal
...avarice, or there is stupidity; in short, the family is somehow grossly wrong: for," continued he, " a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner; and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things." One... | |
 | Gentlewoman - 1864 - 142 oldal
...there is poverty, or there is avarice, or there is stupidity ; in short, the family is somehow wrong. A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner, and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things." How... | |
 | 1880 - 592 oldal
...plenty of sugar and plums. It is said of him that he sought less for flavor than effect. His proposition that a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner, he certainly defended by his own example, in his admirable admixture shown in the veal-pie, his favorite... | |
 | 1878 - 496 oldal
...avarice, or there is stupidity ; in short, the family is somehow grossly wrong ; for,' continued he, ' a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner ; and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things." One... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 834 oldal
...of sugar and plums. It is said of him that he sought less for flavour than effect. His proposition that a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner, he certainly defended by his own example, in his admirable admixture, shown in the veal pie, his favourite... | |
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... a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner, and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things. 
