| Familiar quotations - 1883 - Počet stránok 942
...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. Sletchet of Moral Philosophy. The schoolboy whips his taxed top, the beardless youth manages his taxed... | |
| William Mathews - 1883 - Počet stránok 398
...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... | |
| Thomas Alfred Davies - 1884 - Počet stránok 558
...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." Bulwer: " One of the first principles... | |
| David Jayne Hill - 1884 - Počet stránok 298
...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...has got into the square hole, the oblong into the tiiangular, and a square person has squeezed hinisjlf into a round hole. 9. Indeed, all the poets of... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1889 - Počet stránok 470
...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. THE LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE. — I solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge, I should consider... | |
| Joseph Krauskopf - 1890 - Počet stránok 478
...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." Occasionally the right bit of wood... | |
| John Bartlett - 1891 - Počet stránok 1190
...sqnare hole, the ohlong into the triangnlar, and a sqnare person has sqneezed himself into the ronnd hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the...exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.2 Sketches cf Moral Philosophy. 1 Lord Wlmrneliffe says, "The well-known sentence, almost a proverh,... | |
| Charles Le Roy Goodell - 1891 - Počet stránok 246
...triangular, some square, some oblong, — and the persons acting these parts, by bits of wood of different shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular...into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, while the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole." You, then, will not choose an occupation... | |
| David Jayne Hill - 1893 - Počet stránok 394
...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...triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into a round hole. (9) Indeed, all the poets of the age and none can dispute that they must likewise be... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - Počet stránok 480
...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 mto the round hole. — SYDNEY SMITH. I cannot too often... | |
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