 ... it in his own power to ascertain the execution of the prediction. It was no doubt singular that a man, who meditated his exit from the world, should have chosen to play such a trick on his friends. But it is still more credible that a whimsical man...  All the Year Round - Էջ 321խմբագրել է - 1869Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 680 էջ
...meditated his exit from the world should have chosen to play such a triok upon his friends ; but it ia still more credible that a whimsical man should do...daughter of a Wiltshire bone-setter and sister of Pollj Peachum, whom Gay enlisted into the " Beggar's Opera." The bone-setter and the wise woman were... | |
 | 1830 - 480 էջ
...But it is still more credible th.it a whimsical man should do so wild a thing, than that a messenger should be sent from the dead, to tell a libertine at what precise hour he should expire. — Sir Walter Scott't VARIETIES. The English taste for Port Wine.— The English taste for port wine... | |
 | 1830 - 550 էջ
...But it is still more credible that a whimsical man should do so wild a thing, than that a messenger should be sent from the dead, to tell a libertine at what precise hour he should expire. By the way, Sir Walter has not noticed the Sampford ghost, the last apparition story of any lengthened... | |
 | 1832 - 616 էջ
...but it is still more credible that a whimsical man should do so wild a thing, than that a messenger should be sent from the dead to tell a libertine at what precise hour he should expire." GEORGE GRENVILLE. THIS distinguished statesman was the second son of Richard Grenville, Esq. and his... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1834 - 310 էջ
...But it is still more credible that a whimsical man should do so wild a thing, than that a messenger should be sent from the dead, to tell a libertine at what precise hour he should expire." Scutt's Letters on Demonology, p. 361. was greatly impressed with the idea. He frequently spoke of... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 266 էջ
...but it is still more credible that a whimsical man should do so wild a thing, than that a messenger should be sent from the dead to tell a libertine at what precise hour he should expire." ot BoRN AD 1694. DIED AD 1773. THIS celebrated nobleman, of whom Dr Johnson once remarked, " that he... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1837 - 936 էջ
...But it is still more credible that a whimsical man should do so wild a thing, than that a messenger should be sent from the dead, to tell a libertine at what precise hour he should expire. To this list other stories of the same class might be added. But it is sufficient to show that such... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 էջ
...resolved to poison himself. There was, therefore, no miracle in the tolerably accurate fulfil-* ment of a self-made prediction. " It was no doubt singular,"...he should expire." When the wells were beginning to he disregarded, Epsom became notorious as the residence of Mrs. Mapp, the bone-setter, a character... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 644 էջ
...but it is still more credible that a whimsical man should do so wild a thing, than that a messenger should be sent from the dead; to tell a libertine at what precise time he should expire. bills that are now before the House ; but there is another American bill which... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 էջ
...but it is still more eredible that a whimsical man should do so wild a thing, than that a messenger should be sent from the dead; to tell a libertine at what precise time he should expire. . bills that are now before the House ; but there is another American bill which... | |
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