 | 1844 - 742 Seiten
...believe that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there IB nothing A little more frankness than is customary has been attempted in this story, with no had desire un the writer's part, it is hoped, and with no ill consequence to any reader. If truth is... | |
 | 1851 - 778 Seiten
...society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms ; what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more freedom than is customary, has been attempted in this story...consequence to any reader. If truth is not always pleasant, truth, at any rate, is best, from whatever quarter it may come." This may be so ; but it is scarcely... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 796 Seiten
...society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms ; what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more freedom than is customary, has been attempted in this story...consequence to any reader. If truth is not always pleasant, truth, at any rate, u best, from whatever quarter it may come." This may be so ; but it is scarcely... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 854 Seiten
...what moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness...truth is not always pleasant, at any rate truth is bost, from whatever chair — from those whence graver writers or thinkers argue, as from that at which... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 622 Seiten
...what moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness than is customary has been attempted m^this'story ; with no bad desire on the writer's part, it is hoped, and with no ill consequence to... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Lewis Melville, Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1903 - 54 Seiten
...Gallery moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms. — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness...desire on the writer's part, it is hoped, and with no ill-consequence to any reader. If truth is not always pleasant, at any rate truth is best, from whatever... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1915 - 224 Seiten
...what moves in the real zvorld, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness...is not always pleasant; at any rate truth is best. . . . — Thackeray. A SCENE FROM THE ICE LENS* [132] DePYSTER — I say, Addy, have you another cigarette... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1915 - 224 Seiten
...what moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness...no ill consequence to any reader. If truth is not ahvays pleasant; at any rate truth is best. . . . — Thackeray. XI A SCENE FROM THE ICE LENS* DePYSTER... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1922 - 462 Seiten
...always regret that he could not write them. For the experiment in frankness was made, he declared, "with no bad desire on the writer's part, it is hoped,...is not always pleasant, at any rate truth is best." Realism was not always pleasant for him, and his only consolation was to show that the realistic spectacle... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1922 - 596 Seiten
...what moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms• — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness...attempted in this story; with no bad desire on the author's part, it is hoped, and with no ill consequence to any reader. If truth is not always pleasant,... | |
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You will not hear — it is best to know it — what moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms—what is. the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness than is customary has been attempted in this story... 
