 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...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...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." In the afternoon, as they were being whirled rapidly along in the chaise, Johnson exclaimed with fervour,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...St. 11. A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embry0. Ibid. St. 28. 1 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson, Bosweirs Life, 1766. Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to choose a place... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...and so true. Jemmy Dawson. 1 Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. R. Gifford, Contemplation. 3 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. — Johnson, BorweWs L ife, 1766. Archbishop Leighton often said, that if he were to choose a place... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...make, the more 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 by the prospect of immediate reward in proportion as they please. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - Transportation - 1877 - 642 pages
...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...happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn." Many modern writers, just before the railway system was introduced, dwelt fondly upon the pleasures... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Cooking - 1877 - 522 pages
...style. RESTAURANT — the Tavern. " Sir," said Dr. Johnson to Boswell, " there is nothing which has been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern ;" and on the same occasion — the date is 1776 — expatiating " on the felicity of England in its... | |
 | Henry Scadding - Toronto (Ont.) - 1878 - 652 pages
...speedily spread ; for is it not Dr. Samuel Johnson himself who has, perhaps rather sweepingly said, " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Where a long slope towards the north begins soon after Finch's a village entitled Dundurn was once... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - 128 pages
...in three words, — health, peace, and competence." And BOSWELL reports Dr. JOHNSON as saying that " there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man,...happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." But I must not attempt to enumerate the several opinions of men on this subject. What is of more importance,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1881 - 892 pages
...and so true. Jemmy Dawson. 1 Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. R. Gifford, Contemplation, 2 There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man...much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.—Johnson, Boswelfs Lif,, 1766. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of... | |
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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. 
