 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 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...myself with so much diligence to my studies, that there arc very few celebrated books, either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 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... | |
 | Spectator, Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 324 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...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 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 1 ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life " I have passed my latter... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1890 - 220 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...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 474 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 - 1891 - 498 pages
...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 years in this city, where I am frequently seen in most public places,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 364 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 256 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...applied myself with so much diligence to my studies, 30 that there are very • few celebrated books, either in the learned or the modern tongues, which... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, Sir Richard Steele - 1892 - 160 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... | |
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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... 
