 | Laurence Sterne - English fiction - 1853 - 190 pages
...of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that, he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, be would say there was no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...add, of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shoplifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say, there was no... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 516 pages
...— of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket- picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 588 pages
...of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that, lie verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, be would say there was no... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1855 - 448 pages
...one OF TRISTRAM SHANDY. and that he verily believed, more honest well-meaning people were bubbled put of their ^goods and money by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shoplifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say there was no... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...would add, of the most dangerous kind too, because a sly one: and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say, there was... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by...it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting iu seven. — Yorick't opinion of Gravity, — Sterne. DCLXXXIV. Women never truly command... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 818 pages
...— of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket- picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...add of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered he would say, .there was... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1873 - 516 pages
...— of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocketpicking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say there was no... | |
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Sometimes in his wild way of talking, he would say, that gravity was an arrant scoundrel ; and he would add — of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their... 
