 ... will run over the history of their lives; will relate the annals of their diseases, with the several symptoms and circumstances of them; will enumerate the hardships and injustice they have suffered in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 5371865Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...in court, in parliament^ in love, or in law. Others, are more dextrous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise : They will...consequences, just as they happened; but he would have his own way. Others, make a vanity of telling their faults ; they are the strangest men in the world ;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 554 pages
...in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others, are more dextrous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise : they will...him the consequences, just as they happened ; but he \yould have his own way. Others, make a vanity of telling their faults ; they are the strangest men... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 350 pages
...in court, in parliament. in love, or in law. Others are more dexterous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise : They will...advised such a man from the beginning, and told him the consequence, just as they happened ; but he would have his own way. Others, make a vanity of telling... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 378 pages
...in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others are more dexterous, <and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise : They will...in such a case, but none would believe them ; they advisfd such a man from the beginning, and told him the consequence, just as they happened ; but he... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 pages
...in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others, are more dextrous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise : they will...consequences, just as they happened ; but he would have his own way. Others, make a vanity of telling their faults ; they are the strangest men in the world ;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pages
...in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others, are more dextrous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise : they will...consequences, just as they happened ; but he would have his own way. Others, make a vanity of telling their faults ; they are the strangest men in the world ;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others are more dexterous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise : they will...consequences, just as they happened ; but he would have his own way. Others make a vanity of telling their faults ; they are the strangest men in the world ; they... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others are more dexterous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise. They will...consequences, just as they happened, but he would have his own way. Others make a vanity of telling their faults; they are the strangest men in the world ; they... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...in court, in parliament, in love, or in law. Others are more dexterous, and with great art will lie on the watch to hook in their own praise. They will...consequences, just as they happened, but he would have his own way. Others make a vanity of telling their faults; they are the strangest men in the world ; they... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...ever on the alert to elicit commendation and compliments. Some boast their gift of prescience ; they call a witness to remember they always foretold what...but none would believe them ; they advised such a person from the beginning, and told him the •consequences would be just as they happened, but he... | |
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