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" The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic... "
The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts - Page 220
edited by - 1916 - 471 pages
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Composition and Rhetoric for Schools, Volume 1

Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1902 - 444 pages
...certain remarkable unity which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement—HAWTHORNE. 2. The human species according to the best theory I can...distinct races the men who borrow and the men who lend. 3. I have always thought of Christmas time when it has come round apart from the veneration due to...
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Composition and Rhetoric for Schools, Volume 1

Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1902 - 444 pages
...certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem * the result of artistic arrangement— HAWTHORNE. 2. The human species according to the best theory I can form of it is composed of two distinct races'.the men who borrow and trie men who lend. iV I have always thought of Christmas time when it...
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Early Prose Writings of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell - 1902 - 294 pages
...npintoas ne tnilD asecrs Do t|jc toinB." (Caplor THE humorous Charles Lamb divides the human species into two distinct races : " the men who borrow, and the men who lend." This division lacks definiteness ; for these races too often become intermingled. We choose to divide...
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Essays of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1904 - 460 pages
...both my good friends still — close the catalogue of Grecians in my 10 time. V. THE TWO RACES OF MEN THE human species, according to the best theory I...all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and 15 Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth, " Parthians, and Medes,...
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Selections from His Essays, Letters and Verses

Charles Lamb - 1904 - 226 pages
...Tobacco . . .149 She Is Going 154 The Old Familiar Faces . . .155 Essays ESSAYS THE TWO RACES OF MEN THE human species, according to the best theory I...the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these ( wo original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic...
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Essays of Elia. First Series

Charles Lamb - English essays - 1905 - 352 pages
...both my good friends still — close the catalogue of Grecians in my 10 time. V. THE TWO RACES OF MEN THE human species, according to the best theory I...all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and 15 Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth, " Parthians, and Medes,...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pages
...Grecians in my time. THE TWO RACES OF MEN THE human species, according to the best theory I can form 5 of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men...men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth, " Parthians,0 and Medes, and Elamites," flock hither, ifl and do naturally fall in with one or other...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1908 - 606 pages
...and both my good friends still — close the catalogue of Grecians in my time. THE TWO RACES OF MEN THE human species, according to the best theory I...the dwellers upon earth, "Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites,"0 flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary distinctions....
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A Class-room Conversation Book

Fong F. Sec - English language - 1908 - 152 pages
...Chinese live on bread? We will analyse some sentences for a change : Chas. Lamb writes " that mankind is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend." Can anyone tell me who Chas. Lamb was? What did he write? Of what two races is mankind composed? How...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - English Essays - 1908 - 364 pages
...Grecians in my time. THE TWO RACES OF MEN. /THE human species, according to the best theory I can I form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who \6orrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent...
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