 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - Počet stránok 490
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...the- triangular, and a square person has squeezed liimself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - Počet stránok 548
...oblong — the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we Bhall generally find the triangular person has got into the square hole,...the thing done, seldom fit so exactly, that we can eay they were almost made for each other;" It is a prodigous point gained, if any man can find out... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - Počet stránok 328
...parts in life by holes triangular, some square, some oblong; and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes ; we shall generally find...that we can say they were almost made for each other. But while I am descanting so minutely upon the conduct of the understanding, and the best modes of... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - Počet stránok 478
...some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong—and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...into the round hole. The officer and the office, the docr and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly, that we can say they were almost made for each other.... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - Počet stránok 172
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into a round hole. Sydney Smith. To be wise too late, is the exactest definition of a fool. Young. She —... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - Počet stránok 828
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...that we can say they were almost made for each other. Sketches of Moral Philosophy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - Počet stránok 202
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, while the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole." A French writer on agriculture observes... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - Počet stránok 376
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong, — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, while the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole." A French writer on agriculture observes... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - Počet stránok 386
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong, — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, while the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole." A French writ'er on agriculture... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - Počet stránok 890
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...that we can say they were almost made for each other. Sketches of Moral Philosophy. The school boy whips his taxed top, the beardless youth manages his taxed... | |
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If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes — some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find... 
