 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...fellows."—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 defended drinking on the ground of the well-known maxim in vino veritas. JOHNSON : " Why, Sir,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 376 pages
...were examined and found to be mighty ignorant fellows.' Bosiuell: 'But was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings. Johnson...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden.' The case of these six Methodists throws so much light on the state of Oxford last century, that though... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 374 pages
...Boswell : ' But was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings. fohnson : ' I believe they might be good beings, but they were...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden.' The case of these six Methodists throws so much light on the state of Oxford last century, that though... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - Church and state - 1878 - 606 pages
...willing to be taught, but presume to teach ? Sir, they were examined and found to be ignorant fellows. They might be good beings, but they were not fit to be at Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in a field, but we turn her out of a garden.' 4 What evidence... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true. A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. To illustrate his position, that it was proper that six Methodists, who insisted on public praying... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...were examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows." BOSWELL. "But was it not hard, sir, to expel them ? for I am told they were good beings." JOHNSON....a garden." Lord Elibank used to repeat this as an uncommonly happy illustration. XXXVII. FREE WILL. T)RAY, sir," asked Dr. Mayo, "have you read Edwards... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows." BOSWELL. " But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them; for I am told they were good beings ?" JOHNSON....animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden." 1 Charles, Lord Binning, afterwards eighth Earl of Haddington, was the son of Mary Holt, who, by a... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 634 pages
...examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows." BOSWELL. " But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them ; for I am told they were good beings ?" JOHNSON....animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden." 1 Charles, Lord Binning, afterwards eighth Earl of Haddington, was the son of Mary Holt, who, by a... | |
 | Rough diamond - 1884 - 390 pages
...were examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows." BOSWELL. " But was it not hard, sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings ? " JOHNSON....animal in the field, ~but we turn her out of a garden." As evincing his reluctance to wound a French lady's feelings, we read that, when visiting Paris, he... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...Pedantry. — "Pedantry is the unseasonable osten- |/ tation of learning." Place for Everything. — "A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." Pleasing Others. — " We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody." Praise. — " Praise is to... | |
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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. 
