 | 1832 - 708 Seiten
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 | 1822 - 550 Seiten
...might afterwards concur; but this does not alter our position. As to Bishop Porteus, he had evidently no more to do with it than the man in the moon. Secondly. They say that, in their Prospectus, Bishop Gastrell's name if expressly given as one from... | |
 | 1878 - 1002 Seiten
...are shut — the windows o' heaven. People do go puttin' it down to scores o' things that haven't got no more to do with it than the man in the moon. I'm a'most ashamed for to hear 'em go talkin' about it as they do. "Aw," saysone, "the times is altered.... | |
 | 1828 - 604 Seiten
...sought by the people of India, lay clearly and plainly within his own competence, and the directors have no more to do with it, than the man in the moon, unless we could suppose that philanthropic Body, or their servants, actuated, or capable of being actuated... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 598 Seiten
...sought by the people of India, lay clearly and plainly within his own competence, and the directors have no more to do with it, than the man in the moon, unless we could suppose that philanthropic Body, or their servants, actuated, or capable of being actuated... | |
 | Alexander Maxwell Adams - 1829 - 502 Seiten
...changed his opinion of that case, from what was collected by those agents alluded to, — and that he has no more to do with it than the man in the moon." In answer to that inconsistent tale : That may not be impossible ; certainly he is but a man ; but... | |
 | 1837 - 588 Seiten
...doubt. For a knowledge of that time, however, we must consult the economy of vegetation. The moon has no more to do with it, than "the man in the moon," in my opinion — A medical correspondent of Dr. Balfour informs the Dr. that he considers sol-lunar... | |
 | George Townshend Fox - 1851 - 490 Seiten
...pretending to answer some questions I have asked, they will go on with a long rigmarole about what has no more to do with it than the man in the moon. All these three days God has very mercifully kept me from the adversary, by keeping from me those noisy... | |
 | 1862 - 456 Seiten
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 | Mark Napier - 1862 - 474 Seiten
...does not give it in at all. He treats the story (which he could not evade), as if King William had no more to do with it than the man in the moon. The name of that monarch he never breathes in connection with this last and worst example in Scotland... | |
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suggested Winch, in a halfchuckling undertone. " Brother Pierce, then ! " echoed Theron, impatiently. "The Quarterly Conference and the Estimating Committee deal with that. The trustees have no more to do with it than the man in the moon. 
