 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...complimented, by a discerning world, with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought, I apply to Governour Van Twiller. On the contrary he was a very wise dutchman, for he never said a foolish thing... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 pages
...complimented, by a discerning world, with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to governor Van Twiller. On the contrary, he was a very wise Dutchman, for he never said a foolish thing — and of such invincible... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 pages
...complimented, by a discerning world, with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to governor Van Twiller. -On the contrary, he was a very wise Dutchman, for he never said a foolish thing — and of such invincible... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1820 - 556 pages
...be complimented by a discerning world with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought 1 apply to governor Van Twiller. On the contrary, he was a very wise Dutchman, for he never said a... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...complimented, by a discerning world, with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. On the contrary, he was a very wise Dutchman, for he never said a foolish thing ; and of such invincible... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...which, in English, means doubter ; a name admirably descriptive of his deliberative habits. For, though he was a man shut up within himself like an oyster, and of such a profoundly reflective turn, that he scarcely ever spoke, except iu monosyllables, yet did... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...complimented, by a discerning world, with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. On the contrary, he was a very wise Dutchman, for he never said a foolish thing; and of such invincible... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (N.Y.) - 1826 - 452 pages
...world with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, ia a mere casual remark, which I would nut for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. On the contrary . he was a very wise Dutchman, .for he never said a foolish thing — and of such invincible... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...complimented, by a discerning world, with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. On the contrary, he was a very vise Dutchman, for he never said a foolish thing; and of such invincible... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...complimented, by a discerning world, with all the attributes of wisdom. This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. On the contrary, he was a very wise Dutchman, for he never said a foolish thing; and of such invincible... | |
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By the first, many a smatterer acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts ; by the other many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom. 
