| John Gardner Wilkinson - 1848 - 504 Seiten
...conqueror. At Paris he remains little more than three weeks, but of these he makes excellent use." s( He tells you in his preface. He walked the streets...moments an English fireside.' The metaphor is rather far-fetched, and needs elucidation. In a word, then, Sir Francis Head, eschewing gaieties and invitations,... | |
| NBC University of the Air - 1852 - 424 Seiten
...Paris he remains little more than three weeks, but of these he makes excellent use." " He tells yon in his preface. He walked the streets , 'collecting...few moments an English fireside.' The metaphor is rattier far-fetched, and needs elucidation. In a word, then, Sir Francis Head, eschewing gaieties and... | |
| 1852 - 342 Seiten
...enjoyed the society of the public streets ; in other words, and his own, his sole amusement consisted in collecting literary sticks, picked up exactly in the...order and state in which he chanced to find them. The " faggot" which these " sticks" compose, we commend to the tables of our readers, as calculated... | |
| 1852 - 652 Seiten
...enjoyed, the society of the public streets ; in other words, and his own, his sole amusement consisted in collecting literary sticks, picked up exactly in the...order and state in which he chanced to find them. The 'faggot' which these 'sticks' compose, we commend to the fire-sides of our readers, as calculated... | |
| 1852 - 628 Seiten
...enjoyed, the society of the public streets ; in other words, and his own, his sole amusement consisted in collecting literary .sticks, picked up exactly in the order and state in which he chanced to l'uni them. The 'faggot' which these 'sticks' compose, we commend to the fire-sides of our readers,... | |
| Sir Francis Bond Head - 1852 - 506 Seiten
...than that which I had the happiness to enjoy in the public streets. My amusements solely consisted in collecting literary sticks, picked up exactly in the order and state in which I chanced to find them. They are thin, short, dry, sapless, crooked, headless, and pointless. In the... | |
| sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) - 1852 - 482 Seiten
...than that which I had the happiness to enjoy in the public streets. My amusements solely consisted in collecting literary sticks, picked up exactly in the order and state in which I chanced to find them. They are thin, short, dry, sapless, crooked, headless, and pointless. In the... | |
| Sir Francis Bond Head - 1859 - 510 Seiten
...favours. <\k During my brief residence in the French metropolis, Mj amusements solely consisted in collecting literary sticks, picked up exactly in the order and state in which I chanced to find them. They are thin, short, dry, sapless, crooked, headless, and pointless. In the... | |
| John Sartain, J. S. Hart - 1852 - 1164 Seiten
...than that which I had the happiness to enjoy in the public streets. My amusement solely consisted in collecting literary sticks, picked up exactly in the order and state in which I chanced to find them." The sketches are principally of the French institutions, incidentally of the... | |
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