| New York State Bar Association - 1902 - 584 páginas
...form when referring to our profession. Then, too, an appropriate sentiment would have been — And for ways that are dark, and for tricks that are vain, The legal profession's peculiar. While receiving my early training in the law, I attended lectures in an... | |
| Dean Acheson - 1970 - 858 páginas
...met on July 10. Almost at once we learned the truth of Bret Harte's observation a century before : That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.4 Whereas Kaesong had been between the lines when General Ridgway agreed to it as the seat... | |
| Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 246 páginas
...we found on his nails, which were taper,/ What is frequent in tapers — thats wax. / Which is why I remark / And my language is plain, /That for ways...heathen Chinee is peculiar — / Which the same I am free to maintain. / 74 * 4 ч -Ï ' 1 ~ i , 4 ч ¿ 1 " M v * * 44 Ч * UJ v * î '* Nf , -Ï ~''... | |
| Samuel Gompers, Stuart Bruce Kaufman - 1986 - 632 páginas
...disruption. Bear in mind that the modern political party freebooter finds his prototype in the one who "For ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain the heathen (political) Chinee is peculiar." The movement of labor now is growing stronger day by day. It is becoming... | |
| Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 páginas
...Language from Truthful James: (Table Mountain, 1870)" by Bret Harte (1836-1902). The ballad observes, "For ways that are dark, / And for tricks that are vain, / The heathen Chinee is peculiar" (lines 3-5), and goes on to "explain" this observation by citing the card-sharping career of one "Ah... | |
| Arnold Weinstein - 1993 - 362 páginas
...to remark," remarks Uncle Sam, setting his plug hat firmly back on his hoary brow, "and my langwidge is plain, that for ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain, the foe's most abominable lop-eared lantern-jawed half-breed whiskey-soaked and generally onscropulous... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1995 - 212 páginas
...coining it strong, Yet I state hut the facts; And we found on his nails, which were taper, Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that...The heathen Chinee is peculiar, — Which the same I am free to maintain. Ah Sin's Reply (Anonymous) Which my name is Ah Sin; I don't want to call names,... | |
| Hubert H. Harrison - 1997 - 154 páginas
...nurses but do not want Negro nurses in any other light than that of Bret Harte's Truthful James: — Which I wish to remark — And my language is plain...The Heathen Chinee is peculiar : Which the same I am free to maintain. A Hint of ''Our Reward" The wisdom of our contemporary ancestors, having decided... | |
| C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 306 páginas
...-a B THE "HEATHEN CHINEE" AND THE "YELLOW PERIL"; PSEUDO-CHINOISERIE IN POPULAR FICTION ROBERT DRUCE Which I wish to remark — And my language is plain...heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise 10 explain.1 The "heathen Chinese" is a phrase, not of prejudice and narrow-mindedness, but a sad and... | |
| Jonathan D. Spence - 1998 - 308 páginas
...sleeve. This brings Truthful James back, in his last stanza, to the poem's opening: Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that...The heathen Chinee is peculiar,— Which the same I am free to maintain. The poem appeared in the 1870 Overland Monthly, and produced something of a sensation,... | |
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