 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 Seiten
...is somehow grossly wrong: for (continued he) a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of any thing than he does of his dinner ; and if he cannot get...subject, I asked him, if he ever huffed his wife about his dinner ? "So often (replied he), that at last she called to me, and said, Nay, hold Mr. Johnson,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1861 - 836 Seiten
...lexicographical monument, shrewdly observed ' that there are few things of which a man thinks so seriously as his dinner ; and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other matters.' Little dream those who, ignorant of the working of our chief London scientific societies,... | |
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a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner, and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things." One day, when he was speaking upon the subject, I asked him if he ever huffed... 
