 | 1856 - 606 páginas
...see him, and worn by care and dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable...detective ; it flashes upon a rogue, and lightens up a rascal, like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. In... | |
 | 1916 - 880 páginas
...see him, and worn by care and dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable...and detective; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. And... | |
 | 1853 - 436 páginas
...see him, and worn by care and dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable...and detective; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. . . . He may have low tastes, but not a mean mind; he admires... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...see him, and worn by care and dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable...and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings : in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 páginas
...see him, and worn by care and , dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable...and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings : in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...see him, and worn by care and dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable...and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings : in... | |
 | 1855 - 604 páginas
...see him, and worn by care and dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid = f IŎ " t r Dm فXs b *J ko h ( # o v ݡ _ q... eQv5 i 4 ʲ ; c_ rH R# f% O r~ c/ }\z | ` | i yC/ 7S up a rascal, like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. In... | |
 | 1855 - 576 páginas
...his great, manly heart. To him apply, in a remarkable manner, the words he has written of another. " He has an admirable natural love of truth ; the keenest...and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern." Thackeray's theory of life is by no means that of a misanthropist.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 páginas
...see him, and worn by care and dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable...detective ; it flashes upon a rogue, and lightens up a rascal, like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. In... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 páginas
...ourselves, and on others, are laid bare to the eye. ' His wit,' Mr. Thackeray felicitously remarks, ' is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue, and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern.' He delights to show us hypocrisy simulating virtue, looseness... | |
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He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's... 
