The family Jo: Miller; a drawing-room jest book1848 |
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The Family Jo: Miller: A Drawing-room Jest Book. Jo: Miller,--a Biography Joe Miller Vista completa - 1848 |
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Página 28 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Página 44 - ... that is to say : words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number, words importing the masculine gender shall include females ; the word
Página 22 - Man is become a bird ; he can fly longer and quicker than a Solan goose. The mamma rushes sixty miles in two hours to the aching finger of her conjugating and declining grammar boy. The early Scotchman scratches himself in the morning mists of the north, and has his porridge in Piccadilly before the setting sun.
Página 94 - I declare my conscientious opinion, founded on long observation and reflection, that if there was not a single physician, surgeon, apothecary, man-midwife, chemist, druggist, or drug on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality.
Página 63 - old clothes' in a plain way, as I do now ?" The Jew stopped, and, looking very gravely at me, 'said, in a clear and even fine accent, " Sir, I can say ' old clothes' as well as you can ; but if you had to say so ten times a minute, for an hour together, you would say ogh do, as I do now ;
Página 92 - No sun, no moon ! No morn, no noon — No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day — No sky, no earthly view — No distance looking blue — No road, no street, no t'other side the way...
Página 108 - When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours ; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knock'd on the head for his labours.
Página 140 - Dawes, Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining with him, for the first time after he had lost his Lady, he told them he feared they did not find things in so good order as they used to be, in the time of poor Mary; and looking extremely sorrowful, added with a deep sigh — " She was, indeed, Mare pacificum." A curate, who pretty well knew what she had been, called out : " Aye, my Lord, but she was Mare mortuum first.
Página 55 - I am very sorry — it was very foolish : I do recollect that something of the kind passed through my mind, but I did not think I had uttered it.
Página 55 - O'Moore and Mr. Burke were going to dine with Sir Joshua Reynolds, they observed Goldsmith (also on his way to Sir Joshua's) standing near a crowd of people, who were staring and shouting at some foreign women in the windows of one of the houses in Leicester Square. " Observe Goldsmith,