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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 ... - Página 191
por James Boswell - 1807
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Natural Drills in Expression, with Selections: A Series of Exercises ...

Arthur Edward Phillips - 1909 - 394 páginas
...William Shakespeare. 27. An intense hour will do more than dreamy years. — Henry Ward Beecher. 28. A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of the garden. — Samuel Johnson. 29. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. —...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...the absence of intellectual substructure in Methodism. Methodists at Oxford are like the cow — ' a very good animal in the field: but we turn her out of a garden.'1 But in his own life he represents the reconciliation of both elements in faith — intellect...
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In Praise of Oxford: History and topography

1910 - 356 páginas
...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.' Boswell's Johnson. Clarendon Press. ALL the six were members of St. Edmund Hall. The Principal Methodists...
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The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century

Alfred Plummer - 1910 - 268 páginas
...willing to be taught, but will presume to teach ? Where is religion to be taught but at an University ? I believe they might be good beings, but they were...animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden." 1 The best defence of the University authorities is, that these students admitted that they had attended...
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In Praise of Oxford: History and topography

1910 - 356 páginas
...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....might be good beings ; but they were not fit to be in me University of Oxford. A cow is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden.'...
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The Romance of the Oxford Colleges

Francis Henry Gribble - 1910 - 388 páginas
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Applied Business English

Hubert Adonley Hagar - 1910 - 300 páginas
...— Johnson 8 I am a great friend to public amusements for they keep people from vice — Johnson 9 A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of the garden — Johnson 10 Mr Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance for he had only one idea, and...
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The Railway Library, Volumen2

Slason Thompson - 1911 - 512 páginas
...the mob-spirit without regard to future consequences of great moment. "A cow," says Dr. Johnson, " is a very good animal in the field ; but we turn her out of a garden." There are many other constituents in the complex in which we imist settle our public questions. The...
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The Methodist Review, Volumen63;Volumen85

1903 - 1038 páginas
...willing to be taught, but will presume to teach ? Where is religion to be taught but in a university? ... I believe they might be good beings; but they were...animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden." There is no better illustration of Johnson's innate conservatism than these words. He had great reverence...
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Dr. Johnson and His Circle

John Cann Bailey - 1913 - 276 páginas
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