 ... every day, am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen. There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics, where, after the three first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Стр. 112авторы: James Ferguson - 1819Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1855 - Страниц: 518
...first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle- fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens...becomes invisible. The man who does not know how to methodize his thoughts, has always, to borrow a phrase from the Dispensary, " A barren superfluity... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - Страниц: 408
...politics, where, after the three first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttlefish, that, when he is unable...extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible. The man who does not know how to methodize his thoughts, has always, to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - Страниц: 1090
...first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of. the skuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible. The man who does not know how to methodize his thoughts, has always, to... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - 1859 - Страниц: 232
...first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible. The man who does not know how to methodise his thoughts has always, to borrow... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - Страниц: 548
...ulterior discoveries. Addison remarks in his time, and not inapplicable to ours, " Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself from his enemies, blackens all the waters around him till he becomes invisible.'' The man who does... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - Страниц: 344
...ten where, after the three first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttlefish, that when he is unable...barren superfluity of words ;" the fruit is lost amidst the exuberance of leaves. Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent unmethodical disputants of any that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - Страниц: 470
...politics, where, after the three first sentences, the question is not entirely lost, Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish, that when he is unable...has always to borrow a phrase from the Dispensary, ca barren superfluity of words;' the fruit is lost amidst the exuberance of leaves. Tom Puzzle is one... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - Страниц: 232
...first sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttle-fish, that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible. The man who does not know how to methodise his thoughts, has always a barren... | |
 | 1874 - Страниц: 776
...politics, where after the three first sentences the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish that, when he is unable...all the water about him until he becomes invisible.' Some years after the first establishment of coffeehouses, there was provided another place of refuge... | |
 | 1874 - Страниц: 826
...politics, where after the three first sentences the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish that, when he is unable...blackens all the water about him until he becomes invisible.1 Some years after the first establishment of coffeehouses, there was provided another place... | |
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