 ... 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
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...gleaned among servants nnd neighbours ; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose : they dare not puzzle us for their own Bakes, for every one is anxious to hear what they wish to believe ; and they who repeat it, to laugh... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...our purpose ; they daro not puzzle us for their own enki'S, for every one is anxious to hear wliut and beautiful, and his history is well calculated...to awaken a love of nature and a study of its vari Bcrious than their hearers are apt to imagine. With a tolerable pood memory and some share of conning,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...gleaned among servants and neighbours; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in Fair Imogine found, Or the spectre that bore her away. Not long fiakes, for every one i» anxious to hear what they wish to believe; and they who repeat it, to laugh... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...gleaned among servants and neighbours ; and indeed people themselves are the best intelligencers in From jagged trunks, and overshadoweth Eternal whispers, glooms, t «ab. s for every one ii anxious to hear what they wish to believe ; and they who repeat it, to laugh... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...others*. among servants and neighbors'; 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, I succeed reasonably well as a fortune-teller. With... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 334 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 for their own sakcs, for every one ia anxious to hear what they wish to believe; and they who repeat it to laugh... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...from among servants and neighbors v ; 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, I succeed reasonably well as a fortuneteller. With... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1867 - 758 pages
...gleaned from among servants and neighbors'; and indeed, people themselvesv are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose. They dare not puzzle us...laugh at it when they have done, are generally more gerious than their hearers are apt to imagine. With a tolerably good memory, and some share of cunning,... | |
 | 1869 - 330 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 THE BEGGAR REWARDED. 193 what they wish to believe ; and they who repeat it, to laugh at it when they... | |
 | 1870 - 322 pages
...indeed, people themselves are the best intelligencers in the world for our purpose. They dare not puz/.le us for their own sakes, for every one is anxious to hear THE BEGGAR REWARDED. 193 what they wish to believe ; and they who repeat it, to laugh at it when they... | |
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