At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. ' Some people (said he,) have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look... The Southern California Practitioner - Page 1701898Full view - About this book
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 530 pages
...to give. Dr. Johnson, then, says, " Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously ; for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind any thing else !" To the... | |
| 1859 - 578 pages
...people,' he said, ' have a foolish way of not minding what they eat ; for my part, I mind my belly very carefully, for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything.' In the same spirit he would remark, after hisreturn from a party, ' It was a good dinner enough to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...Some people/ he said, ' have a foolish way of not minding what they eat; for my part, I mind my belly very carefully, for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything.' In the same spirit he would remark, after his return from a party, ' It was a good dinner enough to... | |
| 1859 - 890 pages
...his face perspired. " Some people," he said, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully." So he ate ravenously, and with a voracious relish. If a friend asked him to a plain dmner, he was displeased... | |
| 1859 - 650 pages
...' have a foolish way of not minding what they eat; for my part, I mind my belly very carefully, tor I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything.' In the same spirit he would remark, after his return from a party, ' It was a good dinner enough to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 pages
...'Some people,' he said, 'have a foolish way of not minding what they eat ; for my part, I mind my belly very carefully, for I look upon it that he who does not mind his beJly will hardly mind anything.' In the same spirit he would remark, after his return from a party,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...people,' he said, ' have a foolish way of not minding what they eat ; for my part, I mind my belly very carefully, for I look upon it that he who does not mind his bally will hardly mind anything.' In the same spirit he would remark, after his return from a party,... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly...not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." He now appeared to me Jean Bull philosophy, and he was for the moment, not only serious but vehement.... | |
| 1887 - 592 pages
...functionary doubted after all whether the Duke was a great man. " I look upon it," said Dr. Johnson, " that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else." We heard it recently asserted at dinner that the world had got wickeder since the French Eevolution.... | |
| Elisha Jarrett Lewis - 1863 - 530 pages
...not to mind, what they eat : for my part, I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully ; and I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind any thing else." How perfectly correct and natural do these remarks appear to us, when we reflect for... | |
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