 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 Seiten
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted, in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 Seiten
...or a father, and can discover the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others better than those who are engaged in them —as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted, in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 Seiten
...economy, business, and diversion* of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as slandersby discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game. . . . In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 Seiten
...economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as slanders. by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game. . . . In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 Seiten
...husband or a father, andean discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1889 - 462 Seiten
...on these subjects. In. the Spectator perfect neutrality in politics was promised, unless, indeed, " I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side." 1 Gay, in The Present State of Wit, says that most people judged the true cause of the cessation of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 Seiten
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1892 - 164 Seiten
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, bet)ter than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories,5 unless time. During the Stuart rebellion, in 1745, it was frequented largely by Jacobites.... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1892 - 168 Seiten
...husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories,5 unless time. During the Stuart rebellion, in 1745, it was frequented largely by Jacobites.... | |
 | William Wheeler - 1892 - 200 Seiten
...ISHMENT. MERCY : PARRICIDE ; PUNCrimp, Game of. 496-2-12,201654-2. Crincum Crancum. See BENCH. Criticism. Standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game. 5-1-2Moliere used to read his comedies to his old housekeeper. 114-1-1. Addison's observations on.... | |
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I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who... 
