| Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 páginas
...there's another for you, sir : for I won't save anything by you I am determined." This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and in spite of everything we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money. — P. There is... | |
| John Timbs - 1862 - 422 páginas
...there's another for you, sir ; for I won't save anything by you I am determined.' This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and in spite of everything we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged me to take the money."— Spence's Anecdotes.... | |
| 1834 - 304 páginas
...determined.' This was all said and done with his usual seriousness ; and in spite, of every thing we oould say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.' A sexagenarian dandy lately employed a workingjewellerof Bath, to repair his ring ; which having heen... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 páginas
...there's another for you, sir; for I won't save anything by you, I am determined.' This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions; and in spite of everything we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money." But while Dean... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 páginas
...and in spite of everything we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money m." In the intercourse of familiar life, he indulged his disposition to petulance and sarcasm, and thougbt himself injured if the licentiousness of his raillery, the freedom of his censures, or the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 páginas
...This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of everything we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged...licentiousness of his raillery, the freedom of his censnres, or the petulance of his frolics, were resented or repressed. He predominated over his companions... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 páginas
...another for you, sir ; for I won't save any thing by you, I ani determined.' " This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could pay to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money ! " He began early to think he was a... | |
| 1872 - 246 páginas
...there's another for you, Sir 5 for I won't save 'any thing by you, I am determined/ This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions;...contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money." DR. BOLTON. Dr. Theophilus Bolton was not only a learned divine, but a very fine gentleman. His merit... | |
| 1879 - 592 páginas
...those unconscious descriptions of himself of which we have already given instances. He says of Swift : In the intercourse of familiar life he indulged his disposition to petulance and sarcasm. He predominates over his companions with very great ascendancy. . . . On all common occasions he habitually... | |
| sir John Bowring - 1879 - 626 páginas
...unconscious descriptions of himself of which we have already given instances. He says of Swift:— "In the intercourse of familiar life he indulged his disposition to petulance and sarcasm. He predominates over his companions with habitually affects a style of arrogance, and dictates rather... | |
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