Essay on Irish bulls, by R. L. and M. EdgeworthJ. Johnson, 1808 - 280 Seiten |
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... sure to wound , " is a maxim well known to the po- lite and politic part of the world . " Never laugh when the laugh can be turned against you , ” should be the maxim of those , who find their chief pleasure in making others ridiculous ...
... sure to wound , " is a maxim well known to the po- lite and politic part of the world . " Never laugh when the laugh can be turned against you , ” should be the maxim of those , who find their chief pleasure in making others ridiculous ...
Seite 85
... sure as you breathe . " Now this is by no means an original idea . In an old french book , called " La Charlatanerie des Savans , " is the following note- " D'autres ont proposé et resolu en meme tems des questions ridicules ; par ...
... sure as you breathe . " Now this is by no means an original idea . In an old french book , called " La Charlatanerie des Savans , " is the following note- " D'autres ont proposé et resolu en meme tems des questions ridicules ; par ...
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... a foot and a horseback , all buying and selling , so I to be sure thought no harm of doing the like , so I makes the best bargain I could of the little hanks for my wife and the girl , and the man I sold them to AND WORDS THAT BUKN . 89.
... a foot and a horseback , all buying and selling , so I to be sure thought no harm of doing the like , so I makes the best bargain I could of the little hanks for my wife and the girl , and the man I sold them to AND WORDS THAT BUKN . 89.
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... sure there seems some incongruity in his throw- ing this lump of a two year old calf at his adversary . No arm but that of Milo could be strong enough for such a feat . Upon recolletion , however , bold as this figure may seem , there ...
... sure there seems some incongruity in his throw- ing this lump of a two year old calf at his adversary . No arm but that of Milo could be strong enough for such a feat . Upon recolletion , however , bold as this figure may seem , there ...
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... sure didn't I dream last night , that her ladyship gave me a pound of tea and that your honour gave me a pound of tobacco ? " " But , my good woman , " said the ge- neral , " do not you know , that dreams al- ways go by the rule of ...
... sure didn't I dream last night , that her ladyship gave me a pound of tea and that your honour gave me a pound of tobacco ? " " But , my good woman , " said the ge- neral , " do not you know , that dreams al- ways go by the rule of ...
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Seite 186 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Seite 194 - And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Seite 194 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Seite 125 - Well then, quoth Master More, how say you in this matter ? What think ye to be the cause of these shelves and flats that stop up Sandwich haven ? Forsooth, Sir, quoth he, I am an old man ; I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of Goodwin sands. For I am an old man, Sir...
Seite 124 - ... matter concerning the stopping of Sandwich haven. Among others came in before him an old man with a white head, and one that was thought to be little less than a hundred years old.
Seite 186 - ... Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat ' The monster moving onward came as fast, With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode.
Seite 84 - Boeotian absurdity of our neighbours. What can, at first view, appear a grosser blunder than that of the Irishman who begged a friend to look over his library, to find for him the history of the world before the creation? Yet this anachronism of ideas is not unparalleled; it is matched, though on a more contracted scale, by an inscription on a British finger-post— "Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your eyes, and bless Marshal Wade!
Seite 124 - Ye are the eldest man that I can espy in all this company, so that if any man can tell any cause of it, ye of likelihood can say most of it, or at leastwise more than any man here assembled. Yea, forsooth, good Master...
Seite 17 - Philosophers will not perhaps be so ready as his lordship has been to call this a blunder of the first magnitude. Those who have never been initiated into the mysteries of metaphysics may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words...
Seite 97 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.