 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence : for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered...hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever epoke three sentences together in my whole life. Whilst I was in this learned body, I applied myself... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1855 - 416 pages
...of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of a hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I...there are very few celebrated books, either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with. Upon the death of my father, I was resolved... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...college, I scarce nttercd the quantity of a hundred words; and indeed do not remember that I ever epoke k entitled Pyranii t Child's coffee-house was in St....Paul's churcb-yard, und the resort of the clergy : St. тегу few celebrated books, cither in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted... | |
 | Adolph Heimann - 1859 - 446 pages
..."<fcei. 'Hit* Bung. 86Ccaegium. 87augmt. >8SMengt, f. remember that I ever spoke three sentences89 together" in my whole life. Whilst I was in this learned body, I applied myself91 with so much diligence91 to my studies05, that there are'4 very few celebrated95 books, either"... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1859 - 460 pages
...often supplies the place of successively, sometimes awkwardly enough, as in the following sentence: "I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life."* The resemblance which continuity in time bears to continuity in place is the source of this impropriety,... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1860 - 458 pages
...often supplies the place of successively, sometimes awkwardly enough, as in the following sentence : "I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life."* The resemblance which continuity in time bears to continuity in place is the source of this impropriety,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. . . . I have passed... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1867 - 334 pages
...before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college ? I scarce...uttered the quantity of an hundred words; and indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life The English Humourists.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life "I have passed my latter... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life "I have passed my latter... | |
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I had not been long at the university before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not... 
