| 1872 - 320 pages
...ai.y qutrrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers : nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still... | |
| John Ruskin - England - 1873 - 228 pages
...any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' — Sartor Resartus. too. Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle... | |
| John Ruskin - 1873 - 228 pages
...any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' — Sartor Resartus. 100. Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle... | |
| John Ruskin - English literature - 1873 - 232 pages
...any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' — Sartor Resartus. 100. Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle... | |
| John Ruskin - Prussia (Germany) - 1874 - 164 pages
...any quarrel ? Easy as the devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a universe, there was even,...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' (Sartor Eesartus.) *• Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 pages
...any quarrel ' Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen-out ; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Deutsohland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual help fulness between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen out ; and instead of shooting... | |
| Edwin Doak Mead - 1881 - 158 pages
...quarrel ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entires! strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." It is not conservatism nor anything insular that writes to Goethe : "... | |
| Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 pages
...any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen-out ; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.... | |
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