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" No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. "
The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions ... - Σελίδα 470
των James Boswell - 1807
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Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners

Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 σελίδες
...trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servant will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited...much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn." Archbishop Leighton used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should...

Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - 1856 - 378 σελίδες
...trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servant will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited...is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by £ 3 which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson. CCV. Receive no satisfaction...

Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best Authors

1856 - 374 σελίδες
...trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servant will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited...reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there it nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by E 3 which so much happiness is produced as by a...

The Atlantic Monthly, Τόμος 77

1896 - 940 σελίδες
...which 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 ' aa by a good tavern." JOHNSON. That Johnson frequented the Cheshire Cheese there...

Works ...

Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 σελίδες
...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 incited...sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by men, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.' He then repeated with great...

Mary Bertrand, Τόμος 2

Francis Meredith - 1860 - 326 σελίδες
...money, a hotel is a very comfortable place ; although, perhaps, the opinion of the great doctor, that " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn," is rather too strong. And I certainly incline to prefer one's own fireside, in spite of the further...

Duffy's Hibernian magazine, Τόμος 5

1864 - 412 σελίδες
...house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital ina. No, sir, there is nothing that has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn;" and Shenstone thought of such like hostels when he wrote — " Who e'er has .travelled earth's...

Vanity church, Τόμος 1;Τόμος 31

Vanity church - 1861 - 372 σελίδες
...the more good things you call for, the more welcome you are. No, Sir, there is nothing which has as yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." — SAMUEL JOHNSON. ALMOST in the centre of the little town of Kirkham stands an inn called the...

The popular history of England, Τόμος 7

Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 σελίδες
...tavern chair was the throne of human felicity." " There is nothing," he affirmed, "which has been yet contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn;" — and then he repeated, " with great emotion," Shenstone's lines; " Whoe'er has travell'd life's...

History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna Charta ...

Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 σελίδες
...In a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety — in a private house no servants will attend with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited...an immediate reward in proportion as they please. The Doctor was wont to assert that a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity, and often quoted...




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