 ... are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose : they dare not puzzle us for their own sakes, for every one is anxious to hear what they wish to believe ; and they who repeat it, to laugh at it when they have done, are generally more serious...  The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie - Page 24by Henry Mackenzie - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Treasury - 1872 - 166 pages
...gleaned among servants and neighbours ; and, indeed, people themselves are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose. They dare not puzzle us...and some share of cunning, with the help of walking a-night over heaths and churchyards, with this, and showing the tricks of that there dog, whom I stole... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...gleaned among servants and neighbours ; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose ; they dare not puzzle us...memory and some share of cunning, with the help of walkinga-nightsoverheaths and churchyards, with this, and showing the tricks of that there dog, whom... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 310 pages
...gleaned among servants and neighbours; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in. the world for our purpose ; they dare not puzzle us...serious than their hearers are apt to imagine. With a tolerably good memory and some share of cunning, with the help of walking a-nights over heaths and... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...gleaned among servants and neighbours ; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in tho world for our purpose; they dare not puzzle us for...serious than their hearers are apt to imagine. With a tolerably good memory and some share of cunning, with the help of walking a-night over heaths and churchyards,... | |
 | English reader - 1875 - 170 pages
...gleaned among servants and neighbours ; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose. They dare not puzzle us...their own sakes, for every one is anxious to hear what he wishes to believe ; and they who repeat it, to laugh at it when they have done, are generally more... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1867 - 498 pages
...from among servants and neighbors' ; and indeed, people themselves' are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose. They dare not puzzle us for their owti* sakes, for every one is anxious to hear what they wish to believe ; and they who repeat it, to... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 554 pages
...servants and neighVOL. XVI.-io bors. And, indeed, people themselves are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose ; they dare not puzzle us for their own sakes, for everyone is anxious to hear what they wish to believe ; and they who repeat it, to laugh at it when... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 pages
...servants and neighVOL. XVI.— xo bors. And, indeed, people themselves are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose ; they dare not puzzle us for their own sakes, for everyone is anxious to hear what they wish to believe ; and they who repeat it, to laugh at it when... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1904 - 426 pages
...among servants and neighbours; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in the wor'd for our purpose: they dare not puzzle us for their...of walking a-nights over heaths and church-yards, wiih this, and showing the tricks of that there dog, whom I stole from the serjeant of a marching regiment... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1906 - 440 pages
...gleaned among servants and neighbours ; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose : they dare not puzzle us...they have done, are generally more serious than their bearers are apt to imagine. With a tolerable good memory, and some share of cunning, with the help... | |
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