...phrase, but now it is a clear case of pecuniary crisis. The Bourgeois Gentilhomme was proud to learn that he had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it, and we are proud to learn that the supposed beggarly complaint, which has cleaved to us from our cradles,...

...recollect how heartily you laughed at poor Mr. Jourdain in the Bourgeois Gentilhmnme, when he discovered that he had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it ? — Well, my dear, you frequently talk of political economy without knowing it. It is but a few days...

...and likenesses as realities. Poor Monsieur Jourdan who has been so much laughed at for discovering that he had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it, is surpassed, in simplicity, by multitudes who never discover that they are taking poetry for prose,...

...religious subjects, was really metaphysical reasoning ; as he was filled with astonishment who learned that he had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it. This, however, is certainly the case. The most important truths of natural and revealed religion rest...

...be in the blissful ignorance of the respectable M. Jourdain, when he made the astounding discovery that he had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it. There is, however, much less certainty respecting what constitutes poetry. What sometimes passes for...

...disease, we are all, I suspect, pretty much in the same state as the Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who found out that he had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it. We knew the facts, but we had never reasoned concerning them. The chief illustrations of the symmetry...

...it is the truth in which we believe as Unitarian Christians. There never has been a system of belief whose supporters have so thoroughly " renounced the...in New England will foster its growth now ? Without jndorsing the inference leading to denominational apathy, we cannot but think that there is some truth...

...and Prose, and that the latter was the ordinary form of speech, was surprised and delighted to hear that he had been speaking Prose all his life without knowing it. This is one fact which gives importance to the Latin language. There is another : at one time it was...

...must have been of service to you. You remind me of the Frenchman, who discovered, to his surprise, that he had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it." " What is to be the subject of your exercise at commencement, Greorge ? " said Alice. " I propose to...

...endowed schools, with almost as much surprise and incredulity as was shown by M. Jourdain when he learned that he had been speaking prose all his life, without knowing it. The effect of that rule, however, was not only to make :the country acquainted with numerous small...