Essay on Irish bulls, by R. L. and M. EdgeworthJ. Johnson, 1808 - 280 страница |
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... appeared in our english papers . It was the title to an ad- vertisement of a washing machine , in these words " Every man his own washer- woman ! " We have this day , Nov. 19 , 1807 , seen the following- " This day were published ...
... appeared in our english papers . It was the title to an ad- vertisement of a washing machine , in these words " Every man his own washer- woman ! " We have this day , Nov. 19 , 1807 , seen the following- " This day were published ...
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... appeared to be best served . The English , presently after this farce was over , obliged Hyder to come down from labour - in - vain hill , and to give them battle in earnest . As the historian observes , " The ridiculous cannonade at ...
... appeared to be best served . The English , presently after this farce was over , obliged Hyder to come down from labour - in - vain hill , and to give them battle in earnest . As the historian observes , " The ridiculous cannonade at ...
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... appeared more worn by sorrow than by time . Leaning upon a thick oaken stick as he took off his hat to ask for alms , his white hair was blown by the wind . " Health and long life to you ! " said he . " Give an old man something to help ...
... appeared more worn by sorrow than by time . Leaning upon a thick oaken stick as he took off his hat to ask for alms , his white hair was blown by the wind . " Health and long life to you ! " said he . " Give an old man something to help ...
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... appeared throwing turf at the mark- " Boys ! cried he , " which of ye will hit ? " Each leader of the car , as he passed , could not forbear to fling a turf at the mark ; the turf fell at the foot of the pole , and when all the cars had ...
... appeared throwing turf at the mark- " Boys ! cried he , " which of ye will hit ? " Each leader of the car , as he passed , could not forbear to fling a turf at the mark ; the turf fell at the foot of the pole , and when all the cars had ...
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... appeared over the front of his apartment his chosen motto , as large as the life , in white chalk , Otium cum dignitate . Mixed with keen satire , the Irish often show a sort of cool good sense and dry humour 148 IRISH WIT AND ELOQUENCE .
... appeared over the front of his apartment his chosen motto , as large as the life , in white chalk , Otium cum dignitate . Mixed with keen satire , the Irish often show a sort of cool good sense and dry humour 148 IRISH WIT AND ELOQUENCE .
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Страница 186 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Страница 194 - And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Страница 194 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Страница 125 - Well then, quoth Master More, how say you in this matter ? What think ye to be the cause of these shelves and flats that stop up Sandwich haven ? Forsooth, Sir, quoth he, I am an old man ; I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of Goodwin sands. For I am an old man, Sir...
Страница 124 - ... matter concerning the stopping of Sandwich haven. Among others came in before him an old man with a white head, and one that was thought to be little less than a hundred years old.
Страница 186 - ... Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat ' The monster moving onward came as fast, With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode.
Страница 84 - Boeotian absurdity of our neighbours. What can, at first view, appear a grosser blunder than that of the Irishman who begged a friend to look over his library, to find for him the history of the world before the creation? Yet this anachronism of ideas is not unparalleled; it is matched, though on a more contracted scale, by an inscription on a British finger-post— "Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your eyes, and bless Marshal Wade!
Страница 124 - Ye are the eldest man that I can espy in all this company, so that if any man can tell any cause of it, ye of likelihood can say most of it, or at leastwise more than any man here assembled. Yea, forsooth, good Master...
Страница 17 - Philosophers will not perhaps be so ready as his lordship has been to call this a blunder of the first magnitude. Those who have never been initiated into the mysteries of metaphysics may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words...
Страница 97 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.