 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - Philosophy, English - 1810 - 456 pages
...helieve that they kucw something of it themselves, which they do not. For my own part, I could jnst as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them,...astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so 1 resolved to do hetter than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 518 pages
...made the whole very clear to them, " when, God knows," says he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as...and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield," he adds, " who had the greatest share in forming the hill, and is one of the greatest... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 pages
...themselves, whieh they do not. For my own part, I eould just as soon have talked Celtie or Selavoniau to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so I resolved to i!o better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 522 pages
...made the whole very clear to them, " when, God knows," says he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as...and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield," he adds, " who had the greatest share in forming the bill, and is one of the greatest... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 616 pages
...matter very clear to them ; " when, God knows, continued he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them,...and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield, who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards,... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...himself upon them as fully master of all its details, while, says he, " I could just as soon haver talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them as astronomy, and they would have understood me just as well." The only literary production ascribed to the Lord Chancellor Macclesfield is a tract,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 266 pages
...matter very clear to them ; " when, God knows," continued he, " I had not even attempted it. I could as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them,...and they would have understood me full as well. Lord Macclesfield, who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards,... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...to make them believe that they knew something of it themselves, which they do not. For my own part I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian...astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well, so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I gave... | |
 | 1845 - 718 pages
...make them believe that they knew something -of it themselves, which they do not. For. my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian...astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well ; so 1 resolved to do better than speak to.tbe purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I... | |
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... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. 
