| 1884 - 212 páginas
...when you kiss her, Is fast — which I'll ever maintain. Merry Folks. THAT GERMANY JEW. London, 1874. WHICH I wish to remark— And my language is plain — That for ways that are dark, And tricks far from vain. The Germany Jew is peculiar, Which the same I'm about to explain. Eim Gott was... | |
| Pendleton King - 1884 - 250 páginas
...; and manifested no little shrewdness in the variety he gave to his demands, illustrating the fact that " for ways that are dark, and for tricks that are vain," the city official is peculiar. " BUFFALO, April 10, 1882. " At your meeting on the 27th ultimo, a communication... | |
| Pendleton King - 1884 - 254 páginas
...; and manifested no little shrewdness in the variety he gave to his demands, illustrating the fact that " for ways that are dark, and for tricks that are vain," the city official is peculiar. " BUFFALO, April 10, 1882. " At your meeting on the 27th ultimo, a communication... | |
| 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... | |
| Jonathan Goldstein, Jerry Israel, Hilary Conroy - 1991 - 316 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 are dark And for tricks that are vain. That heathen Chinee is peculiar. Which the same I am free to maintain. Harte published this poem in... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...AmPA; DiL; GeTw; LCAP BRET HARTE (FRANCIS BRET HARTE) (1836-1902) Plain Language from Truthful James 1 H . (1. 1—6) 1 In his sleeves, which were long, He had twenty-four packs. — Which was coming it strong,... | |
| 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... | |
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