 Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Seite 151831Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 Seiten
...spirit, " Let us not be found, when опт Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues....find his way thither the sooner in a grey one." Yet lie was himself under the tyranny of scruples as unreasonable as those of Hudibras or Ralpho, and carried... | |
 | Rough diamond - 1884 - 390 Seiten
...observation, " Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues....not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one ! " Talking of devotion, he one day remarked, " Though it be true that God dwelleth not in temples... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 Seiten
...manners of those whom we live among, and despise such paltry distinctions. Alas, Sir (continued he), a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will...not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one." On an occasion of less consequence, when he turned his back on Lord Bolingbroke in the rooms at Brighthelmstone,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 Seiten
...manners of those whom we live among, and despise such paltry distinctions. Alas, Sir (continued he), a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will...not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one." On an occasion of less consequence, when he turned his back on Lord Bolingbroke in the rooms at Brighthelmstone,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 Seiten
...no consequence, to the manners of those whom we live among, and despise paltry distinctions. Alas! A man who cannot get to Heaven in a green coat will...not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one. The tediousness of the Law and its partiality being denounced by an acquaintance, " Let us hear, sir,"... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 Seiten
...among, and despise such paltry disnctions. Alas, Sir (continued he), a man who cannot get to heaven in green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one." On an occasion of less consequence, when he turned his back on Lord Bolihgbroke in the rooms at Brighthelmstone,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 Seiten
...and spirit, " Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waisteoats, And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles? A religious roan who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one."... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...exclaim : — " Oh, let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues...not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one." ' See ante, ' i- 405. 5 Campbell, who was an exciseman, had in July, 1769, caught a favourite servant... | |
 | William Mathews - 1887 - 406 Seiten
...when the Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from onr souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get...coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one." Coleridge dressed so shabbily that it is said Dorothy Wordsworth, on his first visit to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 Seiten
...Samuel Johnson. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues...not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one." ' Piozzi's Anecdotes, p. 109. Fortitude : THE arguments by which Lady Macbeth persuades her husband... | |
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