| Maria Edgeworth - 1833 - 412 páginas
...unfavourable opinion of my judgment — and, after all, ma'am, of the two classes of people, those who ' never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' and those who never did a foolish thing, and never said a wise one, would not you rather that I should... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 462 páginas
...unfavorable opinion of my judgment — and, after all, ma'am, of the two classes of people, those who ' Never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' and those who never did a foolish thing, and never said a wise one, would not you rather that I should... | |
| Friend to rational mirth - 1817 - 456 páginas
...on very safely, 'tis to the ducks I pull my hat olf." 116. Lord Rochester said of Charles II. that " be never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one.'' When the king was informed of this tart speech, which certainly conveyed tolerably just ideas of his... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 560 páginas
...unfavourable opinion of my judgment — and, after all, ma'am, of the two classes of people, those who ' Never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' and those who never did a foolish thing, and never said a wise one, would not you rather that I should... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 432 páginas
...unfavourable opinion of my judgment — and, after all, ma'am, of the two classes of people, those who ' never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' and those who never did a foolish thing, and never said a wise one, would not you rather that I should... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 418 páginas
...unfavourable opinion of my judgment — and, after all, ma'am, of the two classes of people, those who ' never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one,' and those who never did a foolish thing, and never said a wise one, would not you rather that I should... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1841 - 360 páginas
...unfavourable opinion of my judgment—and, after all, ma'am, of the two classes of people, those who ' never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one,' and those who never did a foolish thing and never said a wise one, would not you rather that I should belong... | |
| John Frost - 1846 - 386 páginas
...Scotchmen told in awful language the might of the English arms.* Of Charles II. it has been said that he never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one, and the latter part of the assertion might have been true but for his conduct at this crisis. While, in... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1852 - 274 páginas
...now at once ludicrous and disgusting that a man like Charles should ever have been a Covenanter. " He never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one ; " and, certainly, the most false and foolish thing he ever did was signing the Solemn League. We said, that... | |
| 1857 - 230 páginas
...themselves. Fox and Sheridan had come to grief, and Gavan Duffy was an exile. Charles the S -cond, again, "Never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one." And Dr. Theodore Hook, of Leeds, the great Pmeyite churchman, who preached befn the Queen at the Bap Àst... | |
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