 | 1856 - 560 pages
...different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares,...these, why should I take side with any one of them t Some are called upon to preach : let them preach. Of these preachers there are somewhat too many,... | |
 | 1856 - 602 pages
...vain endeavour to reconcile an irrtcoucileaule book, flings it at last down MR. THACKERAY 8 NOVELS. 4d in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands...these, why should I take side with any one of them ?' "l Mr. Thackeray's most recent work, " The Newcomes/' — to which we must devote what space is... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 520 pages
...different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and handa up to heaven, his revolt and recantation. If the truth is with all these, why should I take side... | |
 | David Masson - English fiction - 1859 - 330 pages
...different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares,...these, why should I take side with any one of them 1 . . Yes ; I am a Sadducee ; I take things as I find, them, and the world and the acts of parliament... | |
 | David Masson - English fiction - 1859 - 332 pages
...conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavors to reeon« die an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares,...If the truth is with all these, why should I take sides with any one of them? . . . Yes; I am a. Sadducee; I take things as I find them, and the world,... | |
 | David Masson - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 356 pages
...conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavors to recon< cile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes and hands np to heaven, his revolt and recantation. If the truth is with all these, why should I take sides with... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 546 pages
...different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares,...hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.'" On which- side is the author ? On neither, or rather on both. He thinks Arthur very wrong, and is not... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 576 pages
...different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares,...and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.' " On which side is the author ? On neither, or rather on both. He thinks Arthur very wrong, and is... | |
 | 1897 - 1166 pages
...different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavors to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares...and hands up to heaven his revolt and recantation." At the time when "Pendennis" was written, many readers, more especially American readers, might have... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Biography - 1872 - 248 pages
...different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavors to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares,...and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation." Perhaps many American readers, meeting with this passage, may have supposed that the two brothers here... | |
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I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with... 
