 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1875 - Počet stránok 646
...some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong ; and the persons acting those parta by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into a round hole." See (Gr. Gcr.) Man, right, In the right place. BOILEAU. BORN AD 1686— DIED AD mi.... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1875 - Počet stránok 324
...got in the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself in the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer...we can say they were almost made for each other." When we can say so, we may be assured that we have met a person of much tact, and of course of considerable... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1875 - Počet stránok 494
...famous but rarely traced quotation rightly before the reader, " that the triangular person has got in the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself in the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1875 - Počet stránok 346
...famous but rarely traced quotation rightly before the reader, " that the triangular person has got in the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself in the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1878 - Počet stránok 312
...angular, some square, some oblong and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapesr we shall generally find that the triangular person...triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into a round hole. (9) Indeed, all the poets of the age-«nd none can dispute that they must likewise be... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - Počet stránok 726
...a table, of different shapes, — some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong, — and the persons acting these parts by bite of wood of...triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into a round hole. 76. It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - Počet stránok 388
...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." Is it true that " our wishes are... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - Počet stránok 892
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squee2ed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - Počet stránok 672
...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... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - Počet stránok 658
...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. — SYDNEY SMITH. The errors committed... | |
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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... 
