 | American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
..."It teemed he had been trespassing on Jones's family vault " ; and Truthful James continues : — " Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent...all intent : Nor should the individual who happens 10 be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. " Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...happy. The lines which record the demise of one of its shining lights are irresistibly comic. Thus : " Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent...Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent." Nevertheless " Abner, Dean of Angel's, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone... | |
 | 1873 - 618 pages
...happy. The lines which record the demise of one of its shining lights are irresistibly comic. Thus : " Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent...Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent." Nevertheless " Abner, Dean of Angel's, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone... | |
 | Education - 1870 - 522 pages
...was a most sarcastic man, this quiet Mr. Brown, And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town. Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To sav another is an ass — at least to all intent ; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant,... | |
 | Bret Harte - American poetry - 1872 - 410 pages
...a most sarcastic man, this quiet Mr. Brown ; And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town. Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent...by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. Then Abncr Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the... | |
 | Bret Harte - United States - 1873 - 164 pages
...was a most sarcastic man, this quiet Mr, Brown, And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town. Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent...Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS. 87 i A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 534 pages
...was a most sarcastic man, this quiet Mr. Brown, And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town. Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent...Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1873 - 372 pages
...up the Society upon the Stanislow ; and has been inclined to urge, with ' Truthful James,' that they Hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say...Nor should the individual who happens to be meant, Eeply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. The controversy has not, indeed, reached this last... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 162 pages
...was a most sarcastic man, this quiet Mr. Brown, And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town. Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent...Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled... | |
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Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent ; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. 
