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... nature of his own memory . When a person said to him , jocosely , " What ! does not so learned a man as you are know what becomes of a fever during its fit of intermission ? ” " Are you not a cunning fellow yourself , " replied Scaliger ...
... nature of his own memory . When a person said to him , jocosely , " What ! does not so learned a man as you are know what becomes of a fever during its fit of intermission ? ” " Are you not a cunning fellow yourself , " replied Scaliger ...
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... nature , since we are asleep and building up imaginations of this sort half our time . " I had nothing to say against it : it was one of his conjectural subtleties , in which he excels all the persons I ever knew ; but I had some ...
... nature , since we are asleep and building up imaginations of this sort half our time . " I had nothing to say against it : it was one of his conjectural subtleties , in which he excels all the persons I ever knew ; but I had some ...
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... natural to the Irish . A bet being proposed , it was agreed to try the question immediately . An Eng- lishman was asked what he would take to go up aloft blindfold in a hard gale ? month's pay , " said the fellow . you take , Pat ...
... natural to the Irish . A bet being proposed , it was agreed to try the question immediately . An Eng- lishman was asked what he would take to go up aloft blindfold in a hard gale ? month's pay , " said the fellow . you take , Pat ...
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... way , when near Annan , they observed a flock of sheep , and , at a little distance , their keeper stretched on the ground , with a book in his hand . Prompted by 66 his usual desire of prying into human nature in 38 ANECDOTES AND.
... way , when near Annan , they observed a flock of sheep , and , at a little distance , their keeper stretched on the ground , with a book in his hand . Prompted by 66 his usual desire of prying into human nature in 38 ANECDOTES AND.
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William Carew Hazlitt. 66 his usual desire of prying into human nature in every character , Sir Richard proposed to his com- panions a little conversation with the shepherd ; on which they all rode up to him , and the knight immediately ...
William Carew Hazlitt. 66 his usual desire of prying into human nature in every character , Sir Richard proposed to his com- panions a little conversation with the shepherd ; on which they all rode up to him , and the knight immediately ...
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Page 290 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Page 3 - Does he not feel that it is as honorable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? — To all these noble lords, the language of the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone.
Page 3 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, — not I the peerage.
Page 22 - The proverbs of several nations were much studied by Bishop Andrews, and the reason he gave was, because by them he knew the minds of several nations, which is a brave thing ; as we count him a wise man that knows the minds and insides of men, which is done by knowing what is habitual to them.
Page 289 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Page 168 - I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 281 - DEAR Sir Walter Scott and myself were exact, but harmonious, opposites in this : — that every old ruin, hill, river, or tree called up in his mind a host of historical or biographical associations, — just as a bright pan of brass, when beaten, is said to attract the swarming bees ; — whereas, for myself, notwithstanding Dr.
Page 205 - Let us sing to the praise and glory of God a hymn of my own composing.
Page 45 - In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent. Twenty per cent, Twenty per cent, Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per cent.
Page 168 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.