 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 524 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruñtings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic...by which we have been surrounded from childhood.' In 1765 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | 1839 - 518 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grunt ings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 17fi5 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | 1839 - 1004 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic...by which we have been surrounded from childhood.' In 1765 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | 1839 - 518 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic...fits of tempestuous rage his queer inmates— old Mr.Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank— all are as familiar to us... | |
 | 1839 - 606 pages
...slumbers, his midnight usputations, his contortions, his muttering», his gruntirigs, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence; his sarcastic...vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage; all are as familiar to us a» the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. Bui there... | |
 | 1839 - 584 pages
...slumbers, his midnight deputations, hia contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings ; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his lits of tempestuous rage; all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates—old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the Negro Frank—all are as familiar... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings ; his vigorous, acute and hearty eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 1766, his constitution being greatly weakened, he took up his residence with Mr. Thrale,* at Streat*... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings ; his vigorous, acute and hearty eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 1766, his constitution being greatly weakened, he look up his residence with Mr. Thrale,* at Streat*... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his vigorous, acute and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. Macaulay. 1 and in the enjoyment of a competent fortune, is better known to us, than any other man... | |
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... and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings,... 
