... one after another, and were received with hisses, groans, and abusive epithets. " This mode of reasoning must have been admirably adapted to my weak understanding ; for it convinced me at once I had no business there ; and I was for private study... PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE - Seite 89von CHARLES READE - 1870Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1876 - 818 Seiten
...had no business there ; and I was for private study directly. " But, sir, you know the ancients said, 'Better is an army of stags with a lion for their...than an army of lions with a stag for their leader.' Now it so happened that we had a lioness for our leader. She pushed manfully through the crowd, and... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 822 Seiten
...and went into the kitchen of Raby. There she heard news, which soon took her into the drawiug-room. " Oh, Miss," said she, " do you know where the Squire...had a proverb, " Better is an army of stags with a liun for their leader, than an army of lions with a stag for their leader." The Cairnhope sword-dancers,... | |
| 1877 - 974 Seiten
...no business there ; and I was for private study directly. "But, Sir, you know the ancients said, ' Better is an army of stags with a lion for their leader...than an army of lions with a stag for their leader.' Now it so happened that we had a lioness for our leader. She pushed manfully through the crowd, and... | |
| Charles Reade - 1880 - 414 Seiten
...no business there ; and I was for private study directly. " But, sir, you know the ancients said, ' Better is an army of stags with a lion for their leader,...than an army of lions with a stag for their leader.' Now it so happened that we had a lioness for our leader. She pushed manfully through the crowd, and... | |
| Charles Reade - 1877 - 204 Seiten
...no business there ; and I was for private study directly. "But, Sir, you know the ancients said, ' Better is an army of stags with a lion for their leader...than an army of lions with a stag for their leader.' Now it so happened that we had a lioness for our leader. She pushed manfully through the crowd, and... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 600 Seiten
...been devised. The House had shown neither spirit, capacity, nor union in the presence of lawlessness. Better is an army of stags with a lion for their leader than an army of lions with a stag for their general. In the Parliament elected in 1874 the herd of MPs was not entirely composed of lions, and... | |
| Charles Reade - 1908 - 440 Seiten
...no business there ; and I was for private study directly. " But, sir, you know the ancients said, ' Better is an army of stags with a lion for their leader,...than an army of lions with a stag for their leader.' Now it so happened that we had a lioness for our leader. She pushed manfully through the crowd, and... | |
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