 He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's...  The Book Buyer - Página 101890Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1856 - 604 páginas
...dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest...lightens up a rascal, like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. In the midst of all his imperfections he respects... | |
 | 1916 - 880 páginas
...dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest...and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. And beside him, akin in courage and kindliness,... | |
 | 1853 - 436 páginas
...dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest...and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. . . . He may have low tastes, but not a mean mind; he admires with all his heart good and virtuous... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest...and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings : in the midst of all his imperfections, he... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest...and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings : in the midst of all his imperfections, he... | |
 | 1855 - 576 páginas
...his great, manly heart. To him apply, in a remarkable manner, the words he has written of another. " He has an admirable natural love of truth ; the keenest...lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern." Thackeray's theory of life is by no means that of a misanthropist. His philosophy, on the contrary,... | |
 | 1855 - 604 páginas
...dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. , he had forgotten his English. " His first appearance," says a schoolfellow, " He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. In the midst of all his imperfections he respects... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 398 páginas
...by care and dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest...detective : it flashes upon a rogue, and lightens upon a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings :... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 602 páginas
...dissipation, that man retains some of the most precious and splendid human qualities and endowments. He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest...lightens up a rascal, like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. In the midst of all his imperfections he respects... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 páginas
...ourselves, and on others, are laid bare to the eye. ' His wit,' Mr. Thackeray felicitously remarks, ' is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes upon...lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern.' He delights to show us hypocrisy simulating virtue, looseness affecting prudery, foppery pretending... | |
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