 A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then...  An Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea and Its Environs ... - Strana 317podľa Thomas Faulkner - 1810 - Počet stránok 459Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - Počet stránok 592
...will at all events try the experiment. Here they be : " In the first ranis; of these did Zimri stand: A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... | |
 | 1851 - Počet stránok 604
...will at all events try the experiment. Here they be : " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - Počet stránok 594
...princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various that he seem'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was ev'ry thing by starts, and nothing long, But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... | |
 | 1851 - Počet stránok 496
...who resemble the duke of Buckingham as painted by Dryden : " Л man so various, that lie seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the urong, Was everything by turns, but nothing long." Bob Multiform was not destined to reverse the usual... | |
 | Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans - 1851 - Počet stránok 524
...Sunday. 244. PIZARRO CONTEMPLATING OVER THE PRODUCT OF HIS NEW PERUVIAN MINE. June 4th, 1799. SHERIDAN. " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but nil mankind's epitome."* " Whatever Sheridan has done," says Lord Byron, " has/ been par excellence,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - Počet stránok 344
...will at all events try the experiments. Here they be : " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1852 - Počet stránok 466
...heads toward Fort Laramie, then about seven hundred miles to the westward. CHAPTER V. THE 'BIG BLUE.' " A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...mankind's epitome, Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long, But in the space of one revolving moon, Was gamester,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - Počet stránok 310
...And we can thus in a lesser degree say of every one what Dry den said of the Duke of Buckingham : " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." I. II. III. Dramatic art ; Epic art ; Lyrical art. Present ; Past ; Future. Plurality; Totality;... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - Počet stránok 950
...a type representing a whole <a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow— Shak.) <a man so various that he seemed to be not one, but all mankind's epitome— Dryden) Brief is usually narrowly applied in legal use to a concise statement of a client's... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1990 - Počet stránok 340
...all that David was not an untried man! We have all been enriched by his painful experience. He was "A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." May it not be a blessing to others that we also are tried? If BO, ought we not to be right... | |
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