The Companion: After-dinner Table-talkG. P. Putnam, 1850 - 192 páginas |
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... language of their country . Cowley's happy expres- sion of " the great vulgar , " is become a part of the English phraseology . - Hurd . THE STRAWBERRY . Dr. Butler said of strawberries , " Doubtless God could have made a better berry ...
... language of their country . Cowley's happy expres- sion of " the great vulgar , " is become a part of the English phraseology . - Hurd . THE STRAWBERRY . Dr. Butler said of strawberries , " Doubtless God could have made a better berry ...
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... LANGUAGE . They may talk as they will of the dead languages . Our auxiliary verbs give us a power which the an- cients , with all their varieties of mood , and inflec- tions of tense , never could obtain . - The Doctor . EXCUSE FOR A ...
... LANGUAGE . They may talk as they will of the dead languages . Our auxiliary verbs give us a power which the an- cients , with all their varieties of mood , and inflec- tions of tense , never could obtain . - The Doctor . EXCUSE FOR A ...
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... language and admissions in general conversations or writings , ad populum , are as his watch compared with his astronomical time- piece . He sets the former by the town clock , not because he believes it right , but because his neigh ...
... language and admissions in general conversations or writings , ad populum , are as his watch compared with his astronomical time- piece . He sets the former by the town clock , not because he believes it right , but because his neigh ...
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... language of our diplomatists , the sinequanonniness of pockets . There is but one organ which is common to all animals whatsoever : some are without eyes , many without noses ; some have no heads , others no tails ; some neither one nor ...
... language of our diplomatists , the sinequanonniness of pockets . There is but one organ which is common to all animals whatsoever : some are without eyes , many without noses ; some have no heads , others no tails ; some neither one nor ...
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... language . A pun , to be perfection in its kind , should contain two distinct meanings ; the one , com- mon and obvious ; the other , more remote ; and in the notice which the mind takes of the relation be- tween these two sets of words ...
... language . A pun , to be perfection in its kind , should contain two distinct meanings ; the one , com- mon and obvious ; the other , more remote ; and in the notice which the mind takes of the relation be- tween these two sets of words ...
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Página 34 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Página 40 - ... everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog...
Página 91 - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident...
Página 136 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Página 184 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Página 30 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake : the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter ! All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
Página 80 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Página 31 - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
Página 92 - I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right honourable house, — as keeper of the great seal, — as guardian of his majesty's conscience,' — as Lord High Chancellor of England, — nay, even in that character alone, in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Página 28 - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.