 | Joseph Addison - 1903 - 256 pàgines
...business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in. them : as standers-by discover 20 blots which are apt to escape those who are in the...observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories8 unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1902 - 304 pàgines
...or a father, and can discern the errors in the econoniy, business, and diversion of others, Letter than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by...who are in the game. I never espoused any party with 5 violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1902 - 450 pàgines
...husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game.' So much of his personal character and history, ' The Spectator ' tells us, he has felt bound to communicate... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 pàgines
...a father, and can •discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others, better than those who are engaged in them— as standers-by...which are apt to escape those who are in the game. ... In short, I have acted, in all the parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I intend... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 266 pàgines
...and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover plots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game. I never espoused any part with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1902 - 386 pàgines
...economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers154 by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game." So much of his personal character and history the Spectator tells us he has felt bound communicate... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 pàgines
...husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversions of others better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...declare myself -by the hostilities of either side. ADDISON. Out — out are the lights — out all ! And over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1903 - 266 pàgines
...husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...game. I never espoused any party with violence, and am re20 solved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1904 - 286 pàgines
...and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them : as standers-by discover 25 blots1 which are apt to escape those who are in the game....resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs 1 A blot, in backgammon, is a man left uncovered and so liable to capture. and Tories, unless I shall... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pàgines
...Husband or a Father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by...the game. I never espoused any party with violence, 30 and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced... | |
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I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who... 
