| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life " I have passed my latter... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life "I have passed my latter... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...himself by a most profound silence. To quote his own words : " During the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of a hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life "I have passed my latter... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...public exereises of the college, I scaree uttered the quantity of an hundred words; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. . . . "I have passed my latter years in this city, where I am frequently seen in most public places,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of a hundred words ; and, indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for, during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered...there are very few celebrated books, either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with. 20 Upon the death of my father, I was... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence; for, during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered...there are very few celebrated books, either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with. 20 Upon the death of my father, I was... | |
| Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1876 - 128 pages
...greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier life than a slave at the oar." 60. " I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life." — Spectator. 61. " This telescope, the make of Messrs. Steinheil & Sons, of Munich." 62. "He is always... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and. indeed, I do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life " I have passed my latter... | |
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