 | 1825 - 574 pages
...few faults, should have made two volumes so utterly worthless as to defy all criticism. The worst and the best that can be said of them is, that they are good for nothing. They contain four tales, professing to be pictures of English Life. If they be really... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...hard to set aside ; But seldom that which many tongues proclaim Fails altogether, — for a god is Fame.* There are also many other very curious injunctions,...This part is Moore's Almanack in verse, for the year 8OO, or thereabouts, before Christ, and contains directions as to lucky and unlucky days, which, we... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...hard to set aside ; Bitt seldom that which many tongues proclaim Fails altogether, — for a god is Fame.* There are also many other very curious injunctions,...odd, at all events, and might afford subjects for imu-ii interesting speculation to the Society of Antiquaries-. The Days, from v. 765 to the end of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix - Civilization - 1832 - 608 pages
...and consist more in happy perceptions than in reasonings ; in verbal felicities than in thought ; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are extremely clever. The letters of Madame de Sevigm• stand very prominent among these works, and are... | |
 | William Swainson - Natural history - 1834 - 476 pages
...of the best artists then to be met with in France : they are very inferior to those of Edwards ; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are recognisable. That they even still continue to be essential for purposes of reference, is entirely... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pages
...Ionic columns, without a single touch of originality or genial feeling in any one of the buildings. The best that can be said of them is that they are a degree less miserably bald than those of Laing. encouragement from professional men, while one that... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1845 - 534 pages
...elephant is ! " " How majestic the lion I" And very likely — when they are at liberty ! As prisoners, the best that can be said of them is, that they are re- j markabiy disagreeable. As for the elephant, his want of symmetry renders him hideous. One animal,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Australasia - 1846 - 536 pages
...society. As for the Mahomedans, they are traitorous and worthless vagabonds ; and as for the Christians, the best that can be said of them is, that they are good astronomers and mathematicians. This is why the government employs the latter to correct the calendar... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Australasia - 1847 - 560 pages
...society. As for the Mahomedans, they are traitorous and worthless vagabonds ; and as for the Christians, the best that can be said of them is, that they are good astronomers and mathematicians. This is why the government employs the latter to correct the calendar;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Quakers - 1849 - 250 pages
...Rosycrucians and Gnosticks, they profess to a knowledge of things beyond what plain Scripture reveals. The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own Fancies, and the victims of distempered Brains, and ill habits of Bodie. Then... | |
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The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own fancies, and the victims of distempered brains and ill habits of body. 
