 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 598 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 say, • ' The Earlier History of English Booksellers,' by W. Roberts, p. 157. 'Ay, ' Ay, this is Hebrew... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 592 pàgines
...language! one of them take down a Greek * ' The Earlier History of English ' Ay, this is Hebrew ; I 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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, Oh, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By G — d, I can never be sure of these fellows,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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, Oh, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By G — d, I can never be sure of these fellows,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 pàgines
...universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, Oh, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By G — d, I can never be sure of these fellows, for I neither understand Greek, Latin, French, nor Italian myself. But this... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 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... | |
 | Edward Marston - 1902 - 184 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, I must read it from the latter end." By I can never be sure in these fellows,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 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,... | |
 | 1902 - 732 pàgines
...would swear they understood all the languages in the universe. " I have known one of them," he said, " 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... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1909 - 384 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, I must read it from the latter end. By I can never be sure in these fellows, for... | |
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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... 
