 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1802 - 284 pages
...kind too , — because a sly one ; and that he « verily believed, more honest, well-meaning peoii pie were bubbled out of their goods and money « by it in one twelvemonth , than by pocket— a picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked « temper which a merry heart discovered... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1804 - 374 pages
...44 of the moft dangerous kind too, " becaufe a fly one ; and that he verily be" lieved, more honeft, well-meaning people " were, bubbled out of their goods and " money by it in one twelvemonth, than fi by pocket-picking and {hop-lifting in fe" ven. In the naked temper which a " merry heart difcovered,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1808 - 306 pages
...too,—becauie a flyonei and that, he verily believed, morehoneft wellmeaning people were bubbled out oi their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth, than by pocketpicking and moplifting in feven. In the naked temper which a merry heart dilcyvered, he would fay, there was no... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...add,— of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say there was no... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...— of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, > ~ •hop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say there was... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one; and that he verily believed, more honest, well meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by...it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. — Yorick's opinion of Gravity. — Sterne. DCLXXXIV. Women never truly command... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1830 - 432 pages
...add,— of the most langcrous kind too, — because a sly one ; ind that he verily believed, more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shoplifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say there was no... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 542 pages
...— of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...it in one twelve-month, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say, there was... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1834 - 440 pages
...— of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly ono and that he verily believed, more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shopliftin? in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say there was no... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...— of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods...it in one twelvemonth, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say, there was... | |
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Sometimes in his wild way of talking, he would say, that gravity was an arrant scoundrel ; and he would add — of the most dangerous kind too, — because a sly one ; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their... 
