| 1821 - 724 Seiten
...opium as an article of daily diet. In the twenty-eighth year of my age, a most painful affection of the harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one." He who honoured me with this eulogy, was a scholar. stomach, which I had first experi- " and a ripe... | |
| 1822 - 962 Seiten
...moral essays, &c. " That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one." He who honoured me with this eulogy, was a scholar, " and a ripe and good one :" and of all my tutors,... | |
| 1825 - 426 Seiten
...could converse in Greek so much to the purpose, that his master once said of him to a stranger — "That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." He went from this school to one he did not like, and therefore ran away from. The story of tbe elopement... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 Seiten
...moral essays, &c. "That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one." lie who honoured me with this eulogy, was a scholar, " and a ripe and good one :" and, of all my tutors,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 Seiten
...moral essays, &c. " That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one.", He who honored me with this eulogy was a scholar, " and a ripe and good one," and of all my tutors,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 Seiten
...moral essays, &c. " That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one.", He who honored me with this eulogy was a scholar, " and a ripe and good one," and of all my tutors,... | |
| J. D. Bell - 1850 - 488 Seiten
...years old, could converse fluently in Greek. " That boy," said one of his instructors to a friend, " could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." Cicero, in his early days, was advised to change his cognomen, because another family bearing it had... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 Seiten
...moral essays, &c. "That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." He who honored me with this eulogy was a scholar, "and a ripe and good one," and, of all my tutors,... | |
| 1854 - 748 Seiten
...here, at the age of thirteen, such was his proficiency in Greek, the master would sav to a stranger, "That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." Doubtless, he was proud of his show-scholar, and meant to praise him; but this encomium might also... | |
| 1860 - 876 Seiten
...allowed forthwith to enter himself at Oxford, ran away from the Manchester Grammar School with 12?. in his pocket, and, after making a brief excursion...ones to raise money on the property to which he would he entitled on coming of age. When his folly had been amply punished by suffering, the wayward lad... | |
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