| Robert Alfred John Walling - 1908 - 378 pages
...certain enterprise that " his usual good fortune accompanied them." " This," replied Mr. Brandram, " is a mode of speaking to which we are not well accustomed;...of our friends would say, a little of the profane. . . . Pious expressions may be thrust into letters ad nauseam, and it is not for that I plead ; but... | |
| Herbert George Jenkins - Authors, English - 1912 - 562 pages
...state of Spain. . . . " Bear with me now in my criticisms on your second letter [that of 2nd May]. You narrate your perilous journey to Seville, and...will not impute this to you. But you must remember that our Committee Room is public to a great extent, and I cannot omit expressions as I go reading... | |
| Clement King Shorter - Bible - 1913 - 508 pages
...' my usual wonderful good fortune accompanying us."1 This is a mode of speaking to which we are not accustomed — it savours, some of our friends would say, a little of the profane.1 On 29th July 1839 Borrow was instructed by his Committee to return to England, but he was... | |
| Clement King Shorter - 1913 - 506 pages
...wonderful good fortune accompanying us.' This is a mode of speaking to which we are not accustomed—it savours, some of our friends would say, a little of the profane. 1 On 29th July 1839 Borrow was instructed by his Committee to return to England, but he was already... | |
| United States - 1916 - 574 pages
...happened), "his usual wonderful good fortune" had accompanied him. "This," says the Bible Secretary, "is a mode of speaking to which we are not well accustomed...of our friends would say, a little of the profane." In reply Borrow humbly expressed regret that he had thus erred and promised to mend, saying that he... | |
| Sylvia Molloy, Luis Fernández Cifuentes - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 292 pages
...criticisms of your second letter [2nd of May]. You narrate your perilous journey to Seville, and say in the beginning of the description: "My usual wonderful...our friends would say, a little of the profane... We are odd people, it may be, in England; we are not fond of prophets or "prophetesses"»32. Borrow... | |
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