| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 340 pages
...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...smart man." In like manner, all kinds of deficient and impolite usages, are referred to the national loveof trade; though oddly enough, it would be a weighty... | |
| 1856 - 770 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 1863 - 202 pages
...and cuffed, and caned 1" "Yes, sir." "And he is utterly dishonourable, debased, and profligate V " Yes, sir." " In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit Í" "Well, sir, he is a smart man." In like manner, all kinds of deficient and impolitic usages are... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 130 pages
...and cuffed, and caned?" "Yes, sir." "And he is utterly dishonorahle, dehased, and profiigate?" "Yea, sir." " In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit ? " " Well, sir, he is a smart man." In like mauner all kinds of deficient and impolitic usages are referred to the national love of trade ; though,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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