...checkens, three gase and a Dootchman ! Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot bo separated ; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. — Sydney Smith. Queen Caroline asked Sir Robert Walpole what it would cost to enclose St. James's...

...they are not unfrequently fallacies.1 " " ' Did you ever hear my definition of marriage ? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they...always punishing any one who comes between them." Some one speaking of Macaulay : ' Yes, I take great credit to myself; I always prophesied his greatness...

...by its own particular circumstances." " ' Did you ever hear my definition of marriage ? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they...always punishing any one who comes between them.' • "Some one speaking of Macanlay : 'Yes, I take great credit to myself ; I always prophesied his...

...with a gimlet, I am convinced sawdust would come out of him." * Marriage he described as resembling " a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated...always punishing any one who comes between them." f Referring to Macaulay, he once said : " O yes ! we both talk a great deal, but I don't believe Macaulay...

...by its own particular circumstances." " ' Did you ever hear my definition of marriage ? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they...opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who conies between them.' " Some one speaking of Macaulay : ' Yes, I take great credit to myself; I always...

...convinced solitude is not to be endured." " Did you ever hear my definition of marriage ? It is that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they...opposite directions, yet always punishing any one that comes between them." " Lucy, Lucy, my dear child, don't tear your frock ; tearing frocks is not...

...my definition of marriage ? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated ; often moving in opposite directions,...always punishing any one who comes between them.' " Some one speaking of Macaulay : ' Yes, I take great credit to myself; I always prophesied his greatness...

...goes, he gave them his blessing. " Married couples resemble a pair of shears," says Sydney Smith, " so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving...always punishing any one who comes between them." There is an inscription on a tombstone at La Point, Lake Superior, which reads as follows : — " John...

...Extremes. 415. Bacon. 416. Madam, your broom is at the door. 417. It resembles a pair of shears, which are so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving...opposite directions, yet always punishing any one that comes between them. REV. SYDNEY SMITH. 418. A stump orator. K. 419. If the grate be empty, put...

...circumstances. — [Memoii '.] MATRIMONY. DID you ever hear my definition of marriage ? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they...yet always punishing any one who comes between them. — [Memoir.~\ THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. I always prophesied his greatness from the first moment I...