| Joseph Addison - 1896 - 256 pages
...hundred words; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.1 Whilst I was in this learned body, I applied myself...there are very few celebrated books, either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with. Upon the death of my father, I was resolved... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. . . . " I have passed... | |
| A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 pages
...eight years, excepting in the public exer/ cises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of a hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I...ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. While I was in this learned body, I applied myself with so much diligence to my studies, that there... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1898 - 264 pages
...silence : For during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences...studies, that there are very few celebrated books, 5 either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with. Upon the death of my... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1898 - 264 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence : For during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered...the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not 30 ..j remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. Whilst I was in this learned... | |
| SAMUEL THRBER - 1898 - 236 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence; for, during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of a hundred words; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1899 - 238 pages
...profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the 20 college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred...studies that there are very few celebrated books, 25 either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with. Upon the death of my... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1899 - 232 pages
...profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the 20 college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred...studies that there are very few celebrated books, 25 either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with. Upon the death of my... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1899 - 228 pages
...profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the 20 college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred...studies that there are very few celebrated books, 2 5 either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with. Upon the death of... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - Great Britain - 1899 - 222 pages
...wear well. I had not been long at the University, before I distinguished myself by a most excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered...in this learned body, I applied myself with so much 5 diligence to my studies, that there are very few celebrated books, either in the learned0 or modern... | |
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