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" Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. "
Much ado about nothing. The merchant of Venice. Love's labour's lost. As you ... - Page 93
by William Shakespeare - 1762
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: pt. 2. Historical account of the ...

William Shakespeare - 1790 - 672 pages
...am not altogether an afs. two grains of wheat hid in two bulhels of chaff"; you (hall feck all if] ere you find them, and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch." MAT.ONF. 6 1 nmtpt challenge ef tbit latten kiltie .•] Piftol, feeing Slender fuch a Him, puny weight,...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 582 pages
...in all Venice : His reafons arc as two grains of wheat hid in two buftiels of chaff; you (hall feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. ANT. Well; tell me now, what lady is this fame To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems

William Shakespeare - 1796 - 422 pages
...man in all Venice : his reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you mall feek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. The Merchant of Venice, AJ Sc. I. LOVE. Things bafe and vile, holding no quantity, Love can tranfpofe...
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Works, Containing His Plays and Poems: To which is Added a Glossary, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1797 - 644 pages
...man in all Venice : His reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you mail feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. ANT. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this fame To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 22

Tobias Smollett - 1798 - 612 pages
...truth in fuch difquifitions is li!;0 ' two grains of wheat in two bufhels of chaff: you (hall feek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the fearch.' Nothing more ftrongly evinces the futility of etymological inquires in the prelent infrance, than the...
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The Dramatic Writings of Will. Shakespeare: With Introductory ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1798 - 448 pages
...in all Venice : His reafons arc as two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff ; you fhall feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. Anth. Well ; tell me now, what lady is the fame, To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate: Or, Monthly ..., Volume 1

1799 - 912 pages
...public journals, may be compared to " two grains of wheat hid in two bufhels of chaff; you mall feek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the fearch." Here he admits, at lead, that he has chiefly felected his materials from the productions of 'Jacobins,...
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of ..., Volume 1

Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1799 - 468 pages
...Public Journals, may be compared to " two grains of wheat bid in two busheh of chaff '; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search* " The just application of the foregoing words, will, indeed, be manifest to the reader himself,...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....

William Shakespeare - 1800 - 436 pages
...in all Venice : His reafons are as two grains of wheat hid in two buihels of chaff; you fliall feek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the fearch. Ant. Well ; tell me now, what lady is this fame To whom you fwore a fecret pilgrimage, That you to-day...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2

George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pages
...of nothing. His reasons are " as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; " you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when " you have them, they are not worth the search." It is therefore futility in the thought, and not perspicuity in the language, which is the...
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