 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...if you have any candle-grease, any tallow upon your fingers, you are uneasy till you rub it off.—I have often thought that, if I kept a seraglio, the ladies should all wear linen gowns, or cotton—I mean stuffs made of vegetable substances. I would have no silk; you cannot tell when it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...the advantage of wearing linen. JOHNSON. " All animal substances are less cleanly than vegetables. Wool, of which flannel is made, is an animal substance;...that, if I kept a seraglio, the ladies should all were linen gowns, or cotton — I mean stuffs made of vegetable substances. I would * [See an interesting... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...would a [Sec an interesting account of these negotiations in Mucleod's Memoirs, Appendix. — ED.] maiestick teacher of moral and religious wisdom," while sitting solemn in an arm-chair in the Isle... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...you have any candle-grease, any tallow upon your fingers, you are uneasy till you rub it off. — I have often thought that, if I kept a seraglio, the ladies should all were linen gowns, or cotton — I mean stuffs made of vegetable substances. I would 1 [See an interesting... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...you have any candle-grease, any tallow upon your fingers, you are uneasy till you rub it off. — I have often thought that, if I kept a seraglio, the...dirtiness." To hear the grave Dr. Samuel Johnson, u that majestic teacher of moral and religious wisdom," while sitting solemn in an arm-chair in the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...if you have any candle-grease, any tallow upon your fingers, you are uneasy till you rub it off. I have often thought, that if I kept a seraglio, the...dirtiness." To hear the grave Dr. Samuel Johnson, " that majestic teacher of moral and religious wisdom," while sitting solemn in an arm-chair in the Isle of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 412 pages
...if you have any candle-grease, any tallow upon your fingers, you are uneasy till you rub it off. I have often thought, that if I kept a seraglio, the...perceived to be so. Linen detects its own dirtiness." laugh immoderately. He was too proud to submit, even for a moment, to be the object of ridicule, and... | |
 | 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
...was fastidious in his requirements when the case was not his own. ' I have often thought,' he said, ' that if I kept a seraglio the ladies should all wear linen gowns* I would have no silk—you cannot tell when it is clean. Linen detects its own dirtiness.' His chambers... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...was fastidious in his requirements when the case was not his own. ' I have often thought,' he said, ' that if I kept a seraglio the ladies should all wear linen gowns. I would have no silk — you cannot tell when it is clean. Linen detects its own dirtiness.' His chambers... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...was fastidious in his requirements when the case was not his own. ' I have often thought,' he said, ' that if I kept a seraglio the ladies should all wear linen gowns. I would have no silk — you cannot tell when it is clean. Linen detects its own dirtiness.' His chambers... | |
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I have often thought, that, if I kept a seraglio, the ladies should all wear linen gowns, or 'cotton; I mean stuffs made of vegetable substances. I would have no silk; you cannot tell when it is clean: it will be very nasty before it is perceived to be... 
