The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, المجلد 1Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1905 |
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الصفحة xvii
... reason to believe that his nature was seized and possessed by the same gentle and genial shadow of melancholy that has spread its wings over the lives of so many great men . He had been an eye- witness to one of the most harrowing ...
... reason to believe that his nature was seized and possessed by the same gentle and genial shadow of melancholy that has spread its wings over the lives of so many great men . He had been an eye- witness to one of the most harrowing ...
الصفحة xviii
... reason or other , no doubt political - for the con- troversies of that day were far more strenuous than they are now - Judge Dooley was challenged to mortal combat by a contemporary who had the misfortune to have a wooden leg . The ...
... reason or other , no doubt political - for the con- troversies of that day were far more strenuous than they are now - Judge Dooley was challenged to mortal combat by a contemporary who had the misfortune to have a wooden leg . The ...
الصفحة xix
... reasons , completeness is out of the question , for , in a compilation of this kind when you have done your best , the best is still to be done , especially in a land where certain forms of humor have been discovered in the wild ...
... reasons , completeness is out of the question , for , in a compilation of this kind when you have done your best , the best is still to be done , especially in a land where certain forms of humor have been discovered in the wild ...
الصفحة xx
... reasons . It is based on their unique experiences ; it is a part of their personality ; it belongs to their history ; and it seems , in some ways , to be an assurance of independence and strength , of sanity and wisdom , of honesty and ...
... reasons . It is based on their unique experiences ; it is a part of their personality ; it belongs to their history ; and it seems , in some ways , to be an assurance of independence and strength , of sanity and wisdom , of honesty and ...
الصفحة 3
... reason I know not , have ever been very sparing in their applauses ; and no other author has taken the least notice of me ; so that did not my writings produce me some solid pudding , the great deficiency of praise would have quite ...
... reason I know not , have ever been very sparing in their applauses ; and no other author has taken the least notice of me ; so that did not my writings produce me some solid pudding , the great deficiency of praise would have quite ...
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الصفحة 8 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost;" being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for the want of a little care about a horseshoe nail!
الصفحة 13 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
الصفحة 242 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.
الصفحة 240 - Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace, bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through.
الصفحة 86 - He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
الصفحة 111 - In the centre of the road stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.
الصفحة 240 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
الصفحة 109 - What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know. Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chop-fallen.
الصفحة 94 - ... style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use, and a great spinning-wheel at one end and a churn at the other showed the various uses to which this important porch might be devoted.
الصفحة 10 - By these, and other extravagances, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised, but who, through industry and frugality, have maintained their standing; in which case it appears plainly, that A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says.