 One wanders and gropes in a slough of stock-jobbing, one sinks or rises in a storm of politics, and in either case it is as good to fall as to rise— to mount a bubble on the crest of the wave, as to sink a stone to the bottom. The reader who has seen...  A Memoir of George Cruikshank - Стр. 70авторы: Frederic George Stephens, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - Страниц: 144Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1840 - Страниц: 110
...the ferocity of the manners, and act upon them as an emollient" (as the philosophic bard remarks in the Latin Grammar) are likely to be jostled to death,...right to ask in our sentences for any meaning, or any connexion whatever) it happens that, in this particular instance, there is an undoubted connexion.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - Страниц: 610
...to the head of this article scareely expeeted to be entertained with a deelamation upon ingratitnde, youth, and the vanity of human pursuits, which may seem at first sight to have little to do with the subjeet in hand. But (although we reserve the privilege of discoursing upon whatever subjeet shall... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - Страниц: 878
...the bottom. The reader who has seen the name affixed to the head of this article scarce!}- expected to be entertained with a declamation upon ingratitude,...which may seem at first sight to have little to do witli the subject iu hand. But (although we reserve the privilege of discoursing upon whatever subject... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - Страниц: 880
...the bottom. The reader who has seen the name affixed to the head of this article scarcely expected to be entertained with a declamation upon ingratitude,...first sight to have little to do with the subject in band. But (although we reserve the privilege of discoursing upon whatever subject shall suit us, and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - Страниц: 100
...feeling, or can even afford the time that is requisite for the establishment of the new firm. Damp aud chill the shades of the prison-house begin to close...right to ask in our sentences for any meaning, or any connexion whatever) it happens that, in this particular instance, there is an undoubted connexion.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1884 - Страниц: 410
...chapter, on "Astronomers in Humble Life," consists for the most part of a series of Autobiographies. It may seem, at first sight, to have little to do with the leading object of the book ; but it serves to show what a number of active, earnest, and able men are... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - Страниц: 428
...the bottom. The reader who has seen the name affixed to the head of this article scarcely expected to be entertained with a declamation upon ingratitude,...to have little to do with the subject in hand. But [266] (although we reserve the privilege of discoursing upon whatever subject shall suit us, and by... | |
 | William Francis Fairfax Shearcroft - 1925 - Страниц: 88
...CHEMISTRY ESTABLISHED THE century following Boyle was rich in chemical progress, and although the work done may seem, at first sight, to have little to do with the atom, yet the way was being laid for its triumphal re-entry. With the lead given by Boyle, men settled... | |
 | Kate A. F. Crehan - 1997 - Страниц: 284
...labeled as belonging to the domain of "politics" narrowly understood, but also included will be some that may seem at first sight to have little to do with the specifically political domain. Then again, some of these relations concern the state as a repressive... | |
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