 No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Page 465by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | 1902 - 324 pages
...perhaps by Dr. Johnson, who said that one of the characteristics of an inn was that " You are sure you are welcome, and the more noise you make, the...trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the more welcome you are " ; to prove which statement it is related that he repeated with much emotion... | |
 | William Outram Tristam - 1903 - 402 pages
...as if he were in 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...good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an... | |
 | William Outram Tristam - 1903 - 406 pages
...as if he were in 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...trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the \velcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...as if it were his own. Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 316 pages
...house as if it was 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...good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...nature. " At a tavern," he said on one occasion, " there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the...good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 320 pages
...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 which waiters do,...immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by... | |
 | Herbert Arthur Evans - 1905 - 438 pages
...house, (said he,) in which people can enjoy themselves so well, as at a capital tavern. . . you are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the...things you call for, the welcomer you are. . . No, Sir, ; there is nothing which has xvi GREAT TEW 383 yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 pages
...his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome; the more noise you make, the more trouble you give,...good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do who are excited with the prospect of an... | |
 | William Outram Tristram - 1906 - 414 pages
...as if he were in 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...good things you call for, the welcomer you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an... | |
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