| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 444 páginas
...so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head, to turn it over and examine both sides of it, so that he always remained in doubt, merely...holding their tongues and not thinking at all. By th« first many a vapouring, superficial pretender acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts—... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 874 páginas
...so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head, to turn it over and examine both sides of it, so that he always remained in doubt, merely...in consequence of the astonishing magnitude of his iiii :p, ! " There are two opposite ways by which some men get into notice — one by talking a vast... | |
| Washington Irving - 1819 - 302 páginas
...on so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it, so that he always remained in doubt, merely...his ideas! There are two opposite ways by which some mea get into notice — one by talking a vast deal and thinking a little, and the other by holding... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 318 páginas
...on so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it, so that he always remained in doubt, merely...little, and the other by holding their tongues and not thinkingatall. By the first, many a vapouring superficial pretender acquires the reputation of a man... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 páginas
...on so comprehensive a scale that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it; so that he always remained in doubt, merely...There are two opposite ways by which some men get into notice—one by talking a vast deal and thinking a little, and the other by holding their tongues and... | |
| Washington Irving - 1829 - 292 páginas
...on so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it, so that he always remained in doubt, merely...opposite ways by which some men get into notice— one by talk ing a vast deal and think148 HIS CHARACTER. ing a little, and the other by holding their tongues... | |
| Washington Irving - 1831 - 288 páginas
...on so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it, so that he always remained in doubt, merely...get into notice — one by talking a vast deal and think148 HIS CHARACTER. ing a little, and the other by holding their tongues and not thinking at all.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1831 - 522 páginas
...on so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it, so that he always remained in doubt, merely...get into notice — one by talking a vast deal and think148 HIS CHARACTER. ing a little, and the other by holding their tongues and not thinking at all.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 páginas
...on so comprehensive a scale that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it ; so that he always remained in doubt, merely in consequence of the astomshing magnitude of his ideas ! There are two opposite ways by which some men get into notice —... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1840 - 420 páginas
...comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it, so (hat he always remained in doubt, merely in consequence of the astonishing magnitude of his ideas." It is here, in the view which has now been given, we find one element of that great phasis of human... | |
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