 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1758 - 478 pages
...modern, have made many remarkable flips in the management of this figure ; and have fometimes expreffed themfelves with as much impropriety as an honeft failor...therefore mould be, never to join any idea to a figurative expreffion, which would not be applicable to it in a literal fenfe. Thus Cicero, in his treatife De... | |
 | William Melmoth - English prose literature - 1758 - 474 pages
...modern, have made many remarkable ffips in the management of this figure ; and have fometimes expreffed themfelves with as much impropriety as an honeft failor...fortune, " he told them, of having only one of his " hands mot thro the noje" The great caution therefore mould be, never to join any idea to a figurative... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...this figure, and have fometimes expreíTed themfelvcs with as much impropriety as an honcft Ihilor of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, who...fortune, he told them, of having only one of his bands flint through the nole. The great caution therefore ihoulJ be, never to join any idea to a figurative... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1815 - 314 pages
...of this figure, and have sometimes expressed themselves with as much impropriety as an honest sailor of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, who...fortune," he told them, "of having " only one of his hands shot through the nose." The great caution, the'refore, should be, never to join any idea to a... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 336 pages
...of this figure, and have sometimes expressed themselves with as much impropriety as an honest sailor of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, who...fortune,'' he told them, "of having only one of his hands shot through the nose." The great caution , therefore, should be, never to join any idea to a... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 662 pages
...1776, where the writer speaks of " an honest tailor of my acquaintance, a captain of a ¡irivtitoer, who wrote an account to his owners of an engagement,...good fortune, he told them, of having only one of his Kandi shot thro' the no»e."-P. 116. EDWARD PEACOCK. PETER'S YARD-WAND.—On April 1,1837, a man was... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 558 pages
...Thomas Fitzosbprne's ' Letters,' eighth edition, 1776, where the writer speaks of " an honest Bailor of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, who...good fortune, he told them, of having only one of bia handi shot thro' the noie."-P. 115. EDWARD PEACOCK. PETER'S YARD-WAND. — On April 1, 1837, a... | |
 | Edward Peacock - English language - 1889 - 676 pages
...leads to %-erbal incongruities. A writer of the last century tells of " a captain of a privateer, \vho wrote an account to his owners of an engagement in...good fortune, he told them, of having only one of his hands shot through the nose" — Letters of Sir Tlio. Fitzosbornt, 8th ed., 1776, p. 115. HAND-SPEAK.... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...(eighth edition, 1776, |». 115) : "An honest sailor of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, wrote an account to his owners of an engagement in...good fortune, he told them, of having only one of his hands shot through the nose." Handsome Englishman. John Churchill, afterwards the Duke of Marlborough,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...Letters (eighth edition, 1776, p. 115): "An honest sailor of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, wrote an account to his owners of an engagement in...good fortune, he told them, of having only one of his hands shot through the nose." Handsome Englishman. John Churchill, afterwards the Duke of Marlborough,... | |
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... of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, who wrote an account to his owners of an engagement, " in which he had the good fortune, " he told them, of having only one of his 