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... Essay on Irish bulls, by R. L. and M. Edgeworth - Страница 84написао/ла Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1808 - 280 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Maria Edgeworth - 1824 - 402 страница
...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...Providence questioned Adam, concerning the creation, * Essay on Chemical Nomenclature, by S. Dickson, M. D ; in which are comprised observations on the... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1824 - 408 страница
...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 yon ,seen those roads before they were made, You'd lift up your eyes, and bless marshal Wade !" There... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 страница
...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...finger-post — " Had you seen these roads before they were mads, You'd lift up your eyes, and bless marshal Wade !" There is, however, a rabbi, mentioned by Bayle,... | |
| Thomas Alexander Boswell - 1825 - 676 страница
...memorial of' hnri. Indeed, all who travel on the Continent may exclaim with the Scotch inscription, ' " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade," — or -Buonaparte. For he has done wonders; the Alps, the Mountains... | |
| Thomas Alexander Boswell - 1825 - 346 страница
...memorial of him. Indeed, all who travel on the Continent may exclaim with the Scotch inscription, " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade," — or Buonaparte. For he has done wonders ; the Alps, the Mountains... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 354 страница
...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...the creation before he was born ; and that Adam knew more of the matter than the angels who had laughed at him. Those who see things in a philosophical... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 344 страница
...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...the creation before he was born ; and that Adam knew more of the matter than the angels who had laughed at him. Those who see things in a philosophical... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1834 - 464 страница
...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 Been theae roads before they were made, You'd lift op jour eyes, and bless Marshal Waile ™ There... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 450 страница
...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..." Had you seen these roads before they were made, Yon'd lift up your eyes, and bless Marshal Wade I" There is, however, a rabbi, mentioned by Bayle,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 440 страница
...before the creation ? Yet this anachronism of ideas ia not un-. paralleled ; it is matched, though on a more contracted scale, by an inscription on a...finger-post — " Had you seen these roads before Ihey were made, You'd lift up your eyea, and blesa Marshal Wade !" There is, however, a rabbi, mentioned... | |
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