 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 344 Seiten
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 Seiten
...critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life,—of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotnam, you would have sworn... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 Seiten
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 Seiten
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1833 - 502 Seiten
...— you would have said the old man had studied Political Economy and Belles Lettres all his lite ; of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 154 Seiten
...benevolent old man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's command. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One...countryman, you would have supposed he had been coeval with Clavers and Burley, — with the persecutors and persecuted ; and could number every shot that the... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 Seiten
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 Seiten
...alphabet, as if he had been coeval with Cadmus; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak — it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 574 Seiten
...celebrated critic — you " would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles " lettres all his life. Of science it is unnecessary to speak...— it was his own " distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with " your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 670 Seiten
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have -said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbothnm, you would have sworn... | |
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His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist, — he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied... 
