Who'd be an Author?: With the AnswerJohn Snow, 1869 - 264 pages |
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Page 18 - ... you have — I have just — just conferred — (laughter and cheers) — permit me to say that I — I beg to assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that nothing I can say on the present occasion can sufficiently express my — your sense of my kindness — (loud applause and laughter) — will kindle...
Page 138 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action...
Page 26 - a bird in hand is worth two in the bush" — induced me, for a time, to retain the contributor to present wants.
Page 111 - Zealand, in compliance with the request contained in your letter of the 19th instant. " I am, Sir, " Your obedient servant, (Signed) " SAM. WHITBREAD.
Page 18 - I can only say that — that in returning you my sincere thanks, I — I — I beg most sincerely to thank you." (The speaker, on resuming his seat, was rewarded with several rounds of applause of the most unmistakable kind.) . AUTHORSHIP.— BUDDING SHOOTS FROM EARLY TASTE.
Page 18 - Mr. Chairman, — ladies — ladies and gentlemen. In returning — in rising to return, ladies and gentlemen — in returning my sincere thanks for the great...
Page 18 - But it is unnecessary to say anything — (cries of ' go on') — and I trust I have said nothing — (laughter) — nothing on the present occasion that — but I'll not detain you, ladies and gentlemen...
Page 18 - I'll not detain you, ladies and gentlemen — (" Yes, yes, go on ") — by saying that — having said more than I intended to say on the present occasion — (hear, hear) — I can only say that — that, in returning my sincere thanks, I — I — I beg most sincerely to thank you.
Page 18 - ... —unmerited — (cheers) — honour you have — I have just — just conferred — (laughter and cheers) — permit me to say that I — I beg to assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that nothing I can say on the present occasion can sufficiently express my — your sense of my kindness — (loud applause and laughter) — will kindle a most — I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, this is — this is the happiest moment of my life — (renewed applause) — and in— in returning — returning...
Page 241 - ... statement of Bishop Heber, that there is no observable connexion between rank and complexion, is an unaccountable mistake. It is a rule to which the exceptions are very few, that good families, who can keep their children from exposure, are several shades fairer than the labouring classes. I have seen a little girl not more than five or six years of age, with all the finery just described, standing in her father's door to display it. But I have also seen a little girl of not more than that age,...