 | 1856 - 770 páginas
...Yes, sir. He has been kicked, and cuffed, and caned? — Yes, sir. And he is utterly dishonorable, debased, and profligate ? — Yes, sir. In the name...what is his merit? — Well, sir, he is a smart man!" Such is the satisfactory solution of the problem to which wo have already alluded, the solution of... | |
 | 1863 - 972 páginas
...should be tolerated and abetted by your citizens '" He is a public nuisance, is he not?" " Yes, sir." " He has been kicked, and cuffed, and caned?" "Yes,...what is his merit?" " Well, sir, he is a smart man." Smartness is the only wear. A hundred Barnums are as good as a hundred Washingtons, and, perhaps, a... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 páginas
...culfed, and caned f" — "Yes, sir." — "And he is utterly dishonorable, debased, and profligate T" — "Yes, sir." — "In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit t" — " Well, sir, he is a smart man." In like manner, all kinds of deficient and impolitic usages... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 páginas
...sir." " He has been kicked, and cuffed, anc caned ? " " Yes, sir." " And he is utterly dishonorable, ing to, where Falstaff went out to rob those travellers, and ran away." "You know something about Am. Notes, Chap. 18. ****** They certainly are not a humorous people, and their temperament always... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 páginas
...a public nuisance, is he not ? " — " Yes, sir." — " A convicted liar ? " — " Yes, sir." — " He has been kicked and cuffed and caned ? " — " Yes, sir." — " And he is utterly dishonorable, debased, and profligate ? " — " Yes, sir." — " In the name of wonder then, what is... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 178 páginas
...is a public nuisance, is he not?" — " Yes, sir." — "A convicted liar ? " — " Yes, sir." — " He has been kicked and cuffed and caned ? " — "...his merit? " — " Well, sir, he is a smart man." Dickens says he held this dialogue a hundred times.* In Dickens' name I once told this anecdote to... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 páginas
...citizens ? He is a public nuisance, is he nol ? " " Yes, sir." " A convicted liar ? " " Yes, sir." " He has been kicked, and cuffed, and caned ? " " Yes, sir." " And he is utterly dishonorable, debased, and profligate ? " " Yes, sir." "In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1884 - 1054 páginas
...Yes, sir. He has been kicked, aud cuffed, and caned? Yes, sir. And he is utterly dishonorable, and debased, and profligate? Yes, sir. In the name of...then, what is his merit? Well, sir he is a smart man." The Rev. Joseph Cook says : "I once told this anecdote to a learned German, who replied, bringing down... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 990 páginas
...by your citizens? He is a public nuisance, is he not?" "Yes, sir." "A convicted liar?" "Yes, sir." "He has been kicked, and cuffed, and caned?" "Yes,...sir." "And he is utterly dishonourable, debased, and profligate?'1 "Yes, sir." "In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit?" "Well, sir, he is a smart... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 872 páginas
...Citizens ? He is a public nuisance, is lie not ? " Yes, sir." " A convicted liar ? " " Yes, sir." " He has been kicked, and cuffed, and caned?" "Yes, sir." " And he is utterly dishonorable, debased, and profligate ? " "Yes, sir." "In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit... | |
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In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit ? " " Well, Sir, he is a smart man. 
