Angol és magyar beszélgetések kézikönyve

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Franklin-Társulat, 1885 - 292 pages
 

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Page 281 - I never, my friend, thought mankind very capable of anything generous ; but the stateliness of the patricians in Edinburgh, and the servility of my plebeian brethren (who perhaps formerly eyed me askance) since I returned home, have nearly put me out of conceit altogether with my species.
Page 105 - Numerals and expressions oftime the first the second the third the fourth the fifth the sixth the seventh the eighth the ninth the tenth the eleventh the twelfth the thirteenth the fourteenth the fifteenth the sixteenth the seventeenth the eighteenth...
Page 278 - Give me leave to assure you, that as the rest of the world take notice of the strength and clearness of your reasoning, so I cannot but be extremely sensible that it was employed in my defence. You have herein not only vanquished my adversary, but reduced me also absolutely under your power ; and left no desire more strong in me, than that of meeting with some opportunity to assure you with what respect and submission I am yours.
Page 279 - But your lordship, 1 am sorry to observe to-day, is troubled with the gout; if .my book can produce a laugh against itself or the author, it will be of some service. If it can set you to sleep, the benefit will be yet greater; and as some facetious personage observed half a century ago, that
Page 282 - ... influences to the rhyming tribe, I much dread it is not yet beneath my horizon. — Misfortune dodges the path of human life ; the poetic mind finds itself miserably deranged in, and unfit for the walks of business ; add to all, that, thoughtless follies and hare-brained whims, like so many...
Page 281 - I have bought a pocket Milton, which I carry perpetually about with me, in order to study the sentiments, the dauntless magnanimity, the intrepid, unyielding independence, the desperate daring, and noble defiance of hardship, in that great personage, Satan.
Page 284 - Should it be inconvenient to let me have the whole, a part, at this critical juncture, will exceedingly oblige, Sir, your obedient humble servant.
Page 285 - At sight please to pay by this first bill of exchange to Mr.
Page 51 - The seosons in the spring in the summer in the autumn in the winter W hat do you do?
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