Who then will say, he has, like me, travelled it twice ! Old people are much inclined to accuse youth of their follies; but on this head silence will become me, lest I should be asked, ' What can exceed the folly of that man, who, at seventy-eight, walked... The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Seite 172von Reuben Percy - 1826Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1803 - 598 Seiten
...last that ever will attempt it. Who then will say, he has, like me, travelled it twice ! Old people are much inclined to accuse youth of their follies;...walked six hundred miles to see a shattered Wall!" The following is Mr. Button's account of the manner of his journey; " Thirteen months elapsed after... | |
| 1803 - 614 Seiten
...last that ever will attempt it. Who then will say, he has, like me, travelled it twice ! Old people are much inclined to accuse youth of their follies;...head silence will become me, lest I should be asked, f What can exceed the folly of that man, who, at seventy-eight, walked six hundred miles to see a shattered... | |
| Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 Seiten
...has, like me, travelled h twice! Old people are much inclined to accuse youth of their lollies; bul on this head silence will become me, lest I should be asked, what ran exceed the folly of that man, who, at irrentv-eight, walked six hundred miles to гее a shattered... | |
| John Nichols - 1815 - 866 Seiten
...last that ever will attempt it. Who then will say, he has, like me, travelled it twice ? Old people are much inclined to accuse youth of their follies...seventy-eight, walked six hundred miles to see a shattered Wall !'. WH" The title to Mr. Hutton's next publications were, " Remarks upon North Wales ; being the Result... | |
| Charles Knight - 1865 - 366 Seiten
...last that ever will attempt it. Who then will say, he has, like me, travelled it twice ? Old people are much inclined to accuse youth of their follies...walked six hundred miles to see a shattered Wall!"' Such zeal and perseverance did not show " the folly of the man." Nor was it folly in him, in his seventy-fifth... | |
| E S. P - 1872 - 594 Seiten
...architecture, for all the sciences which depend on calculations and proportions." 845. Wonderful Journey. —"Old men," says the amiable but eccentric antiquary,...wall in England, the wonderful and united work of Agrícola, Hadrian, and Severus. Mr. Hutton had long contemplated the journey, but was dissuaded from... | |
| 1872 - 604 Seiten
...Wonderful Journey. —"Old men," says the amiable but eccentric antiquary, Mr. William Hutton, " arc much inclined to accuse youth of their follies ; but...see a shattered wall ?" Yet such a journey did Mr. Huttou actually undertake and perform, in order to inspect the Roman wall in England, the wonderful... | |
| William Hutton - 1872 - 476 Seiten
...last that ever will attempt it. Who then will say he has, like me, travelled it twice ? " Old people are much inclined to accuse youth of their follies...seventy-eight, walked six hundred miles to see a shattered Wall !' WH "Birmingham, April I3th, 1802." Hutton thus in his own peculiar manner opens his subject : —... | |
| Dover, Folkestone, and Deal guide - 1875 - 188 Seiten
...speaking of this journey, he says— " Old men are much inclined to accuse yeuth of their follics ; but on this head silence will become me, lest I should be asked. ' What can exceed the fully of that man, who, at seventy-eight, walked six hundred miles to see a shattered wall?"' ... In... | |
| E S. P - 1880 - 594 Seiten
...architecture, for all tho sciences which depend on calculations and proportions." 845. Wonderful Journey.— "Old men," says the amiable but eccentric antiquary,...actually undertake and perform, in order to inspect the Boman wall in England, the wonderful and united work of Agricola, Hadrian, and Severus. Mr. Hutton... | |
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