 | Charles George Harper - 1906 - 372 strani
...the 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...been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is provided as by a good tavern or inn." The " Chapel House " inn took its name from a wayside chapel... | |
 | 1906 - 1012 strani
...high priest of literature ; and underneath this uncontroverted statement ran his own merrier words: "No, sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced as by a good tavern." Miss Trafton gave a sigh of satisfaction as she drew off her... | |
 | John Thompson Gray - 1906 - 600 strani
...contagion ever disturbed his mind. CHAPTER V MAJOR THROCKMORTON "Dr. Johnson: No, sir; there is nothing yet contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern." THE year 1825 opened with great commercial activity and prosperity, and closed with disaster, all over... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 strani
...humanity, canting hypocrisy, and вШу enthusiasm. — Sydney siaith. INNS. — There in notliing yet contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by u good tavern or inn. — Johnnou. Though I am an inn-keeper, thankhcavon I am a Christian. — Cernantes.... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - 1909 - 392 strani
...solicitude which he himself enjoyed whenever he entered a tavern door. "There is nothing," he concluded, "which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced as by a good tavern or inn." And when the tired traveller does take his ease within... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1910 - 430 strani
...delighting in the comfort of the Shakespeare's Head Inn, between Worcester and Lichfield, exclaimed : " No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is provided as by a good tavern or inn." This oft-quoted saying the learned Doctor uttered at the Chapel... | |
 | 1911 - 918 strani
...which won the admiration of his own age and remains as recommendations to the reverence of posterity. 'No Sir! There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness had been produced as by a good tavern.' Johnson." Close by is an old print commemorating a ludicrous... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1911 - 450 strani
...which won the admiration of his own age and remains as recommendations to the reverence of posterity. 'No Sir! There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness had been produced as by a good tavern.' Johnson." Close by is an old print commemorating a ludicrous... | |
 | Ralph Nevill - 1911 - 356 strani
...which won the admiration of his own age and remain as recommendations to the reverence of posterity. 'No, Sir! there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced as by a good tavern.'—JOHNSON." A number of quaint pictures and prints are to be... | |
 | Henry Parr Maskell, Edward W. Gregory - 1911 - 340 strani
...more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. The White Hart, Witham No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospects of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing which has... | |
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... were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are. 
