 Pray, Mr. Lintot, (said I,) now you talk of Translators, what is your method of managing them? "Sir, (replied he,) those are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe : I...  Letters - Seite 330von Alexander Pope - 1751Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1902 - 732 Seiten
...would swear they understood all the languages in the universe. " I have known one of them," he said, " take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry : ' Ay, this is Hebrew ; I must read it from the latter end." My God, I can never be sure of those fellows, for I neither understand... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1909 - 384 Seiten
...rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe : I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By I can never be sure in these fellows, for... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 Seiten
...rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, Oh, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By G—d, I can never be sure of these fellows,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 600 Seiten
...rogues in the world ; in a hungry fit they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and say, • 'The Earlier History of English Booksellers,' by W. Roberts, p. 157. 'Ay, this is Hebrew;... | |
 | Maurice Friedberg - 1997 - 242 Seiten
...rogues in the world: In a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages of the universe: I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, Ay this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By Gd I can never be sure in these fellows, for I neither understand... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 Seiten
...rogues in the world: in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, "Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end." By G — d, I can never be sure in these... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1848 - 774 Seiten
...rogues in the world ; in a hungry fit they'll swear they understand all the langages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, ' Ah, this is Hebrew — I must read it from the latter end !' The bookseller then proceeded to explain... | |
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