 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 Seiten
...well-known passage, " is such a man that if you met V»im for the first time in the street, where yon were stopped by a drove of oxen, and you and he stepped...you parted, you would say, This is an extraordinary man. He is never what we would call humdrum ; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 Seiten
...conversationalist is well known. ' Burke,' he said, ' is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...oxen, and you and he stepped aside to take shelter for five minutes, he'd talk to you in such a manner that, when you parted, you would say, " This is... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 Seiten
...you were stopped by a shower, and you and he stepped aside to take shelter for five minutes, he would talk to you in such a manner that when you parted you would say : ' This is an extraordinary man.' " When he was first elected to parliament Johnson said : " Now we who have known Mr. Burke know... | |
 | John Morley - 1904 - 244 Seiten
...well-known passage, " is such a man that if you met hi™ for the first time in the street, where yon were stopped by a drove of oxen, and you and he stepped...you parted, you would say, This is an extraordinary man. He is never what we would call humdrum ; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 Seiten
...JUSTICE AND LIBERTY st T. DUNDAS PILLA1JS " Burke, Sir, is luch a man that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...such a manner that when you parted you would say, ' Thia is an extraordinary man.'" WATTS & CO., —DR. JOHNSON. 17, JOHNSON'S COUBT, FLEET STEEET, LONDON,... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1906 - 372 Seiten
...conversation Johnson thought him extraordinary — " Such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...minutes, he'd talk to you in such a manner that when E&rnun& JSurfte 169 you parted you would say, ' This is an extraordinary man.' " Yet at this time he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 Seiten
...to somebody at the other end. Burke, Sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in a street where you were stopped by a drove of oxen,...you parted, you would say, this is an extraordinary man. Now, you may be long enough with me, without finding any thing extraordinary." He said, he believed... | |
 | Thomas Dreier - 1913 - 200 Seiten
...Doctor Johnson said of Edmund Burke: "Burke, sir, is such a man that, if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...talk to you in such a manner, that when you parted you'd say, 'This is an extraordinary man.' " HIS GREATEST GIFT "That man over there with the white... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1913 - 462 Seiten
...'11 speak to somebody at the other end. Burke, sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street where you were stopped by a drove...stepped aside to take shelter but for five minutes, he 'd talk to you in such a manner, that, when you parted, you would say, this is an extraordinary... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1916 - 184 Seiten
...kill me." At another time he said : " Burke, sir, is such a man that, if you met him for the first time in the street, where you were stopped by a drove...talk to you in such a manner, that when you parted you'd say — "This is an extraordinary man.'" "Can he wind into a subject like a serpent, as Burke... | |
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Burke, sir, is such a man, that if you met him for the first time in the street where you were stopped by a drove of oxen, and you and he stepped aside to take shelter but for five minutes, he'd talk to you in such a manner, that, when you parted, you... 
