 | 1882 - 1434 páginas
...Studies on Great Subjects. Mucation. Nor all that glisters gold. i». GBAV— On a Favourite Cat. St 7. ced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think n. BBET il.ui L — Plain Language from Truthful James. Where most sweets are, there lyes a snake:... | |
 | Alexander Sutherland - 1882 - 252 páginas
...Other implements were very similar. I surveyed the assortment, and felt in my " inner consciousness " that " For ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The Government Contractor is peculiar, Which the same I will always maintain." Thursday and Friday were... | |
 | Francis Henry Buffum - 1882 - 538 páginas
...field, then it was that the cook shone in his glory; and the cook-house was his citadel and sinecure. " For ways that are dark, and for tricks that are vain," the average company cook would put to shame all the heathen Chinese on the Pacific coast. The portal of... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 páginas
...For a time editor of The Overland Monthly. Wrote The Heathen Chinee, Ths Luck of Roaring Camp, etc. Which I wish to remark — And my language is plain...that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar ; Which tl.e same I would rise to explain. Richard Henry Stoddard (1825 ). — A poet and magazine-writer.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...tears all in vain, — Take them, and give me my childhood again ! Ibid. FRANCIS BRET HARTE. 1839 -- Which I wish to remark, — And my language is plain,...tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. Plain Language from Truthful James. Ah Sin was his name. Ibid. With the smile that was childlike and... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 264 páginas
...we found on his nails, which were taper, What is frequent in tapers — that's wax. " 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. " Though slight and incidental, there is no other lyric by BRET HARTE so perfect... | |
 | John Hamer - 1883 - 334 páginas
...we found on his nails, which were taper, What is frequent in tapers — that's wax. Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that...vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I am free to maintaia THE AGED STRANGER. " I WAS with Grant " — the stranger said ; Said the farmer,... | |
 | John Hamer - 1883 - 338 páginas
...we found on his nails, which were taper, What is frequent in tapers — that's wax. Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that...tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, THE AGED STRANGER. " I WAS with Grant " — the stranger said ; Said the farmer, " Say no more, But... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1883 - 816 páginas
...we found on his nails, which were taper, What is frequent in tapers — that's wax. Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that...tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar— Tim Crane and "Widow Bodott. Franca M. WMclier. O no, Mr. Crane, by no manner o' means, 'tain'ta minnit... | |
 | 1883 - 394 páginas
...sweet success in warfare — dynamite — " Which is why I remark. And my language is plain, That (or ways that are dark, . And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. Which the tame I am tree to maintain." On the whole, China is a nice field for emigration, and foreigners get... | |
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That for ways that are- dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain. 
