 they don't know when to abuse him, and when to praise him; I will allow no man to speak ill of David that he does not deserve; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom: but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean,...  Nature - Página 8editado por - 1878Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality,...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." . . . He said that Sir John and he once belonged to the same club, but that as he eat no supper, after... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality,...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." ... He said that Sir John and he once belonged to the same club, but that as he eat no supper, after... | |
 | 1842 - 604 páginas
...really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality,...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 494 páginas
...really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom: but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality,...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 494 páginas
...really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom: but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality,...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | 1842 - 740 páginas
...I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but, to be sure, he is penurious and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality*...tendency to savageness that cannot easily be defended.' We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in Ait favour ; and he then... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 662 páginas
...really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom : but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality, and a tendency to savageness, that cannot be easily defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his... | |
 | 1879 - 592 páginas
...of two other men. Of Sir Joshua Hawkins, his friend, and afterward one of his biographers, he said : It must be owned he has a degree of brutality and a tendency to savageness that can not easily be defended. Of Warburton he said : He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1784 - 636 páginas
...I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; biit to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality,...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 páginas
...I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but, to be sure, he is penurious, and he is mean, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality...tendency to savageness that cannot easily be defended." — Madame D'Arblay. It is well known that there was formerly a rude custom for those who were sailing... | |
| |
