 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 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... | |
 | 1841 - 646 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 heait discovered, ha would say there was no... | |
 | 1841 - 644 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, 1» would say there was... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 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 - 1847 - 420 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 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 no... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1849 - 504 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 no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 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 shoplifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say, there was no... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - Maxims - 1851 - 290 pages
...would add, of the most dangerous kind too, because a sly one ; and that he verily believed more honest wellmeaning people were bubbled out of their goods...by 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... | |
 | George Daniel - London (England) - 1852 - 328 pages
...scoundrel, and of the most dangerous kind too, because a sly one ; and more honest well-meaning people are bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop lifting in seven. The very essence of gravity is design, and consequently, deceit ; a taught trick... | |
 | George Daniel - English poetry - 1852 - 342 pages
...scoundrel, and of the most dangerous kind too, because a sly one ; and more honest well-meaning people are bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop lifting in seven. The very essence of gravity is design, and consequently, deceit ; a taught trick... | |
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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... 
