| English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...Hudibras has given, why those who can talk • On trifles speak with the greatest fluency ; namely, that the tongue is like a race-horse, which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. Which of these reasons soever may be looked upon as the most probable, I think the Irishman's thought... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...Hudibras has given, why those who can talk on trifles speak with the greatest fluency ; namely, that the tongue is like a race-horse, which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. Which of these reasons soever may be looked upon as the most probable, I think the Irishman's thought... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...distinguished virtues seldom occur. 5. 'Tis more easier to build two chimneys than to maintain one. The tongue is like a race-horse; which runs the" faster the lesser weight it carries. The pleasures of the understanding are more preferable than those of the imagination, or of sense.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 296 pages
...Hudibras has given, why those who can talk on trifles speak with the greatest fluency; namely, that the tongue is like a race-horse, which runs the faster the lesser weight if carries. Which of these reasons soever may be looked upon as the most probable, I think the Irishman's... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...Hudibras has given, why those who can talk on trifles speak with the greatest fluency ; namely, thai the tongue is like a race-horse, which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. Which of these reasons soever may be looked upon as the most probable, I think the Irishman's thought... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1812 - 224 pages
...disposition will secure universal regard. 5. 'Tis more easier to build two chimneys than to maintain one. The tongue is like a race-horse ; which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. The pleasures of the understanding are more preferable than those of the imagination, or of sense.... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1814 - 308 pages
...146. Key, p. 24. Rule 8.) SYNTAX. 65 5. "Tis more easier to build two chimneys than to maintain one. The tongue is like a race-horse ; which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. The pleasures of the understanding are more preferable than those of the imagination, or of sense.... | |
| Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...Exerdsei in False Syntax — 'Tis more easier to build two chimneys than to maintain one — ThetongM is like a race-horse, which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. — The pleasures of the understanding are more prrferable,than those of the imagination, or of sense.... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...Hudibras has given, why those who can talk on trifles speak with the greatest fluency ; namely, that the tongue is like a race-horse, which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. Which of these reasons soever may be looked upon as the most probable, I think the Irishman's thought... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...distinguished virtues seldom occur. 5. Tis more easier to build two chimneys than to maintain one. The tongue is like a race-horse; which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. The pleasures of the understanding are more preferable than those of the imagination, or of sense.... | |
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