...the turtle's shell. ' Why are you doing that ?' he asks. ' Oh ! to please the turtle.' ' Why, child, you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's, to please the Dean and Chapter.' In the same spirit he rises to the sublime of hyperbole in summoning all the powers of the universe,...

...the turtle. " Why are you doing that, B ?" said my father: "Oh, to please the turtle." " Why, child, you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's, to please the Dean and Chapter." It will be impossible for us to follow Sydney Smith in all his journeys backwards and forwards from...

...the turtle. ' Why are you doing that B ';' said my father. ' Oh, to please the turtle.' ' Why, child, you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's, to please the Dean and Chapter.' Some one naming — as not very orthodox, ' Accuse a man of being a Socinian, and it is all over with...

...the turtle. " Why are you doing that, B ?" said my father. " Oh, to please the turtle." " Why, child, you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's, to please the Dean and Chapter." Some one naming as not very orthodox, " Oh," said my father, " accuse a man of being a Socinian, and...

...the turtle. " Why are you doing that, B ?" said my father. " Oh, to please the turtle." " Why, child, you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's, to please the Dean and Chapter." PRAISE. SOME one observing the wonderful improvement in since bis success ; " Ah !" he said, " praise...

...stroking the shell of a turtle, "why are you doing that 1 " " Oh, to please the turtle." " Why, child, you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's, to please the Dean and Chapter." He comes upon his joke often while pursuing an analogy: — "If you masthead a sailor for not doing...

...the turtle. " Why are you doing that, B ?" said my father. "Oh, to please the turtle." " Why, child, you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's, to please the Dean and Chapter." PRAISE. SOME one observing the wonderful improvement in since his success; " Ah!" he said, " praise...

...' are you doing that?' said he. 'To please the tortoise,' was the reply. ' Why,' said the Canon, ' you might as well stroke the ' dome of St. Paul's to please the Dean and Chapter.' We would say to the phrenologists — You might as well try to learn the constitution of the Chapter...

...presence stroked the shell of a turtle in order, as she said, to please it, retorted, "Why, child, you might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's to please the Dean and Chapter." One of his intimate friends was Sir James Mackintosh, the historian, of whom Macaulay said: "In his...

...specimens of his wit, as when he remarked to a child who was stroking a tortoise " to please it," that he might as well stroke the dome of St. Paul's to please the dean and chapter ; or his flat contradiction of the learned bore who at inordinate length was dwelling upon the great...