THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion... Tales and Novels - Seite 25von Maria Edgeworth - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Percy - 1887 - 456 Seiten
... Chester Harvey Rowell ; $. RELIQUES ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY. 373 Tiough some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits ; as, take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is, which... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1890 - 460 Seiten
...bear. On the significance of libels, whether defamatory or not, vide Selden's Table Talk, sub voce : ' Though some make slight of Libels, yet you may see by them how the Wind sits : As take a Straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is, which... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1893 - 566 Seiten
...imitation of the ancient Scottish Manner [361] 27. Admiral Hosier's Ghost [367] The Glossary [372] Though some make slight of LIBELS, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: As take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that, which way the wind is, which... | |
| John Knox - 1895 - 592 Seiten
...Melancholy, p. 149, edit. 1632.) The learned Selden, in his Table Talk, art. " Libels," has remarked, " Though some make slight of libels. yet you may see by them how the wind sits. . . . More solid things do not shew the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels."... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 482 Seiten
...make a Speech for my Lord Mayor, he desir'd to take the measure of his Lordship's mouth. LIBELS THO' some make slight of Libels, yet you may see by them how the wind fits: as take a straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is; which... | |
| Lawrence Lewis - 1909 - 334 Seiten
...never uttered anything wiser than his little sermon on the adage about straws in the wind : " Tho' some make slight of Libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : As take a straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is, which... | |
| Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1923 - 574 Seiten
...SUITS " A lie will make the circuit of the globe while truth is putting on its boots to follow." "Tho' some make slight of Libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: As take a straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is, which... | |
| Kevin Sharpe - 1993 - 400 Seiten
...'Raylinge Rymes and Vaunting Verse': Libellous Politics in Early Stuart England, 1603-1628 ALASTAIR BELLANY Though some make slight of Libels, yet you may see by them how the Wind sits: as take a Straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is, which... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - 1999 - 340 Seiten
...potentially more demotic. John Selden's assessment of the informative value of ephemera is well known: Though some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which... | |
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