| Walter Sichel - 1901 - 582 דפים
...Anne to herself. He was a smooth man of courtly presence and old-world 1 And in another place, " Ob, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my travels." Letter to Pope, September 29, 1725, Works, vol. xvii. p. 40. He further there says : " Our... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 212 דפים
...years and general conversation. I am daily losing friends, and neither seeking nor getting others. 0 if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my travels! but, however, he is not without fault: there is a passage in Bede_ highl}' commending the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 212 דפים
...years and general conversation. I am daily losing friends, and neither seeking nor getting others. 0 if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my travels ! but, however, he is not without fault: there is a passage in Bede highly commending the piety... | |
| Longman (Firm), Robert McWilliam - 1905 - 628 דפים
...the friendship of Swift, who though he did not love the Scotch made an exception of the doctor. ' Oh if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels ! ' he says in a letter of 1725. Swift and his friends appear in the latter years of the Queen's... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 דפים
...Swift, however, thought so highly of him that ten years earlier he had written to Pope : — ' Oh, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels [Gulliver].' Pope's Works (Elwin and Courthope), vii. 54. See also Swift's praise of his 'moral... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 524 דפים
...and detestation for that animal called man. Not the individual so much, but the whole species. " Oh, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, i would burn my Travels!" in 1726 the old Club reassembled in London " like mariners after a storm." Swift began looking... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1910 - 344 דפים
...affection we too rarely notice nowadays between men of mature years. Swift said of Arbuthnot : ' Oh ! if the world ' had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it I would burn my ' Travels.' This may be doubted without damage to the friendly testimony. The terrible Dean himself,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1912 - 508 דפים
...years and general conversation. I am daily losing friends, and neither seeking nor getting others. Oh! if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels. But, however, he is not without fault. There Is a passage in Bede highly commending the piety... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 626 דפים
...the animals, that he could write of Dr Arbuthnot, perhaps the man of all others he most loved, ' O, if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my " Travels." ' * As Dr Bernard well observes, ' it is remarkable how unerring was Swift's discernment... | |
| Norman Moore - 1913 - 72 דפים
...wretched till he reached the place ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit. He yet said " Oh ! if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it I would burn my travels." Physicians who have great opportunities of observing them have generally felt kindly towards... | |
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