 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pàgines
...rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, " Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end." By Gd, I can never be sure in these fellows,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pàgines
...rogues in the world: in a hungry (it, they '11 swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, "Ah, this is Hebrew," and must read it from the latter end. By G — d, I can never be sure in these... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pàgines
...in the world : in a hungry fit. they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. 1 have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, " Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end." By G — d, 1 can never be sure in these... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 pàgines
...rogues in the world ; in a hungry fit they will swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my comiler, and cry, Ah ! this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By the Lord, I can never... | |
 | Giuseppe Mattei, Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil) - 1887 - 608 pàgines
...rogues in the world ; in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, ',Ay, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.' My God, I can never be sure of those fellows, for I neither... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pàgines
...rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, "Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end." By G — d, I can never be sure in these... | |
 | William Roberts - 1889 - 396 pàgines
...rogues in the world ; in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe : I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, ' Ay, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.' By G — d, I can never be sure in these fellows, for... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pàgines
...rogues in the world: in a hungry fit. they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. 1 have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, " Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end." By G— d, I can never be sure in these... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 pàgines
...rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they '11 swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, " Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end." By G — d, I can never be sure in these... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 pàgines
...have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, "Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end." By G — d, I can never be sure in these fellows, for I neither understand Greek, Latin, French, nor Italian myself. But this... | |
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Pray, Mr. Lintot, (said I,) now you talk of Translators, what is your method of managing them? "Sir, (replied he,) those are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe : I... 
