| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...his walk, and had stopped to look at some workmen who were planting trees by the emperour's osder. ' What are you doing ?' said he. ' Merely seeing the...employment ? Take off his pelisse, and give him a spade ? There, now work yourself!' " But the instances were few in which the gloom, spread over a great metropolis,... | |
| 1810 - 590 pages
...walk, and had stopped to look at some workmen who were planting trees by the emperor's order. — " What are you doing?" said he. " Merely seeing the men work," replied the nobleman. " Oh, it that your employment ? — Take off his pelisse and give him a spade ! There, now work yourself... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 648 pages
...and had stopped to look at some workmen who were planting trees by the Emperor's order — " What arc you doing?" said he. "Merely seeing the men work,"...replied the nobleman. " Oh, is that your employment ? — Takeoff his pelisse, and give him a spade ! — There, now work yourself!" "But the instances... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - Asia - 1813 - 512 pages
...had stopped to look at some workmen who were planting trees by the emperour's order. " What are yon doing?" said he. " Merely seeing the men work," replied...Oh, is that your employment? Take off his pelisse, anil give him a spade ! There, now, work yourself!" One evening, being at his theatre in the Hemitage,... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 600 pages
...workmen who were planting trees by the Monarch's order. — " What are you doing ?" said the Emperor. " Merely seeing the men work," replied the Nobleman....employment ? — Take off his pelisse, and give him a spade ! — There, now work yourself." When enraged, he lost all command of himself, which sometimes gave... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - Africa - 1816 - 598 pages
...trees by the Monarch's order. — " What are you doing ?" said the Emperor. " Merely seeing the man work," replied the Nobleman. " Oh, is that your employment ? — Take off his pelisse, and give him a spade ! — There, now work yourself!" When enraged, he lost all command of himself, which sometimes gave... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1817 - 610 pages
...workmen who were planting trees by the Monarch's order.—" What are you doing ?" said the Emperor. " Merely seeing the men work," replied the Nobleman. " Oh, is that your employment?—Take off his pelisse, and give him a spade 1—There, now work yourself!" When euraged,... | |
| George Ramsay - Anecdotes - 1828 - 654 pages
...the following short dialogue passed : "What are you doing?"—" Merely seeing the men work."—"Oh! is that your employment? Take off his pelisse! and give him a spade ! There now, work yourself!" VANITY. WITHOUT quarrelling with the rest of mankind, we may yet be permitted... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1831 - 428 pages
...street, the emperor saw a nobleman who had stopped to look at some workmen planting trees by his order. " What are you doing?" said he. " Merely seeing the...employment ? Take off his pelisse and give him a spade. There — now work yourself!" Once, when he met an officer going to the palace, wrapped in his cloak,... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - World history - 1831 - 952 pages
...nobleman who had stopped to look at some workmen planting trees by his order. " What are you iloing ?" said he. " Merely seeing the men work," replied the...employment ? Take off his pelisse and give him a spade. There — now work yourself!" Once, when he met an officer going to the palace, wrapped in his cloak,... | |
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