 | Frances Mary Grogan Brookfield - 1906 - 420 pàgines
...vulgar, but to which we presumed that we had a legitimate claim, and gladly accepted it. We lived, in constant intercourse with one another, day by day,...tobacco, but every Saturday evening we held a more solemn meeting, when each member of the Society, about twelve in number, delivered an essay on any subject,... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1922 - 636 pàgines
...Shakespeare at the top öl all, and I should have found a lofty pedestal for Kant and Goethe .... We lived in constant intercourse with one another, day by day, meeting over our wine or over our tobacco, but every Saturday evening we had a more solemn sitting, when each member of our... | |
 | Wilfred Stone - 1966 - 488 pàgines
...claim, and gladly accepted it. We lived, as I said, in constant intercourse with one another . . . but every Saturday evening we held a more solemn sitting,...discussed and submitted to the vote of the whole number. Alasl alasl what reckless joyous evenings those were. What solemn things were said, pipe in hand; how... | |
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... sympathizing with them, that we piqued ourselves on the name of the ' Apostles ' — a name given us, as we were sometimes told, by the envious and jeering vulgar, but to which we presumed that we had a legitimate claim, and gladly accepted it. We... 