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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. "
The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions ... - Page 191
by James Boswell - 1807
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Johnson: His Characteristics and Aphorisms

James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 376 pages
...Scoundrel." Pedantry. — "Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning." Place for Everything.-~-"A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." -,"•;"; r "... ' Pleasing Others. — " We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody." Praise....
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 522 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....they were not fit to be in the University of Oxford 3. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.' Lord Elibank used to...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Comprising a Series of His Epistolary ...

James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...examined, and found to be mighty ignorant fellows." BOSWÜLL : "But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings ?" JOHNSON...the field, but we turn her out of a garden." Lord Klibank used to repeat this as an illustration uncommonly happy. Desirous of calling Johnson forth...
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Münchener beiträge zur Romanischen und Englischen philologie, Volumes 9-15

English literature - 1895 - 1056 pages
...mighty ignorant fellows." On Boswell remarking that they were good beings, the doctor answered : — "I believe they might be good beings, but they were...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." On another occasion, ') as the conversation turned on Toleration and Martyrdom. Johnson made the remark...
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Methodism in the Light of the English Literature of the Last Century

J. Albert Swallow - English literature - 1895 - 178 pages
...mighty ignorant fellows." On Boswell remarking that they were good beings, the doctor answered : — "I believe they might be good beings, but they were...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." On another occasion, ') as the conversation turned on Toleration and Martyrdom, Johnson made the remark...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...providence of nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one. n. PILPAT— Fable III. Cow. sh to believe in immortality — I wish to live with you forever. /. KEATS o. SAM'L JOHNSON — BoswelVs Life of Johnson, 1772. Dog. His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest....
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A Modern English Grammar

Huber Gray Buehler - English language - 1900 - 308 pages
...sentences are simple, , or compound : — /If i/»In the multitude of counselors there is safety. 2. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden. 3. Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy...
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Ephemera Critica: Or, Plain Truths about Current Literature

John Churton Collins - Criticism - 1901 - 442 pages
...not hard to expel them ? for I am told they were good beings." " I believe," replied the sage, "that they might be good beings, but they were not fit to...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." To our certain knowledge many of those who owe their reputation to the art to which we are referring...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1901 - 502 pages
...BOSWKLL. " But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them ; for I am told they were good beings ?" JOHNROV. " I believe they might be good beings ; but they were...A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we tarn her out of a garden." Lord Elibank used to repeat this as an illustration uncommonly happy. Desirous...
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Ephemera Critica: Or, Plain Truths about Current Literature

John Churton Collins - Criticism - 1901 - 440 pages
...Boswell attempted to defend certain Methodists who had been expelled from the University of Oxford, beings, but they were not fit to be in the University...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." To our certain knowledge many of those who owe their reputation to the art to which we are referring...
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