 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...  The Spectator - Strana 3úprava: - 1898Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | George Campbell - 1801 - Počet stránok 462
...often supplies the place of successively, sometimes awkwardly enough, as in the following sentence. " f 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,... | |
 | 1803 - Počet stránok 434
...schoolmaster, who used to say, " that my parts were solid, " and would wear well." I had not been long at the university, before I distinguished myself by...profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, except in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ;... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - Počet stránok 508
...my schoolmaster, who used to say, that my parts were solid, and would wear well. I had not been long at the university, before I distinguished myself by...exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - Počet stránok 504
...my schoolmaster, who used to say, that my parts were solid, and would wear well. I had not been long at the university, before I distinguished myself by...exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - Počet stránok 348
...schoolmaster, who used to say, * that my parts were solid, and would wear well.' I had not been long at the University before I distinguished myself by...of the college, I scarce uttered .the quantity of an hundred words; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - Počet stránok 372
...schoolmaster, who us*(T'' to say, that my parts were solid, and would wear well. I had not been long at the University, before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence; for, duiing the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of tb» College , I scarce uttered... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - Počet stránok 370
...school-master, who used to say, ' that my parts were solid, and would wear well.' I had not been long at the university, before I distinguished myself by...exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole... | |
 | G. Hamonière - 1819 - Počet stránok 388
...favori de mou maître , qui avait ' that my parts were solid, and would wear well.1 I had not been long at the University, before. I distinguished myself by a most profound silence; for daring the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered... | |
 | 1823 - Počet stránok 406
...school-master, who used to say, 'that my parts were solid, and would wear well.' I had not been long at the university, before I distinguished myself by...college, I scarce uttered the quantity of a hundred words j and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. Whilst I... | |
 | 1836 - Počet stránok 932
...long at the university, before I distinguished myself bv a most profound silence ; for during t"hc ve me a particular account of the mischiefs they do in the country, in cf an hundred words; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole... | |
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