 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 290 pages
...suffer some distortions from art. To make a fine gentleman several trades are required, but chi fly a barber. You have undoubtedly heard of the Jewish...strength lay in his hair : one would think that the Unglish were for placing all wisdom there. To appear wise, nothing more is requisite here than for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 288 pages
...a fingle limb that does not fuffer fome diftortions from my art. To make a fine gentleman, feveral trades are required, but chiefly a barber : you have undoubtedly heard of the Jewifh champion, whofe ftrength lay in his hair : one would think that the Kuglifh were for placing... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still, is the part of a great mind — Seneca. CCCXIV. To make a fine gentleman several trades are required,...heads of all his neighbours, and clap it like a bush upon his own the distributors of law and physic stick on such quantities, that it is almost impossible,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still, is the part of a great mind.—Seneea. CCCXIV. To make a fine gentleman several trades are required,...his hair: one would think that the English were for placmg ail wisdom there. To appear wise nothing more is requisite here, than for a man to borrow hair... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 pages
...to the fashion, seems scarcely to have a single limb that does not suffer some distortions from art. To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required,...champion, whose strength lay in his hair. One would think the English were for placing all wisdom there. To appear wise, nothing more is requisite here than... | |
 | Pierre François Merlet - French language - 1837 - 314 pages
...to the fashion, seems scarcely to have a single limb that does not suffer some distortions from art. To make a fine gentleman several trades are required,...heads of all his neighbours, and clap it like a bush upon his own : the distributors of law and physic stick on such quantities, that it is almost impossible,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...to the fashion, seems scarcely to have a single limb that does not suffer some distortion! from art. To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. You have undoubtedly he&id of the Jewish champion, whose strength lay in his hair. One would think that the English were... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...the fashion, eeems scarcely to have a single limb that does not sufler some distorliiiin from art. of the two Italian lovcre, Da Corsin and Julia Bcllamano, who, after a long separation, expired w hcoid of the Jewish champion, whose strength lay in lus hair. One would think that the English were... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...to the fashion, seems scarcely to have a single limb that docs not suffer some distortions from art. n at last. Marlow. By Heavens! I«-,,, . 1 of the Jewish champion, whose strength lay in his hair. One would think that the English... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...Kiddington, p. fi3. To make a fine gentleman, several trades arc required, but chiefly a br.rber ; you have undoubtedly heard of the Jewish champion,...requisite here than for a man to borrow hair from the beads of all his neighbours, and clap it like a bush on his own. " Goldsmith. Citizen of the World.... | |
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These vanities, however, employ much fewer hands in China than in England; and a fine gentleman or a fine lady here, dressed up to the fashion, seems scarcely to have a single limb that does not suffer some distortions from art. To make a fine gentleman,... 
