 | People's and Howitt's journal - 938 pages
...comparison, and wit. Is he an original writer? If not, something very little less than kin thereto. To bo original, as the world goes is to be one man picked...brisk, pert epithets which he has laboriously crammed np from Emerson and Gilfillan, and even got into the knack of coining for himself— these delighted... | |
 | 1846 - 352 pages
...that Hamlet's estimate of public morality is only too favourable : " Ay, Sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." There is not even the pretence of religion in trade. The selfishness which, in the religious world,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 592 pages
...of Polonius, — ' Honest, my lord?' — his misanthropic reply, ' Aye, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand ;' and he proceeds to assign a reason why it should be so ; — ' For if the sun breed maggots in a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 578 pages
...of Polonius, — ' Honest, my lord?' — bis misanthropic reply, ' Aye, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand ;' and he proceeds to assign a reason why it should be so ; — ' For if the sun breed maggots in a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...Then, I would you were so honest a mnn. Pol. Honest, my lord ? Ham. Ay, sir : to be honest, as this / Pol. That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 252 pages
...wisdom that might mould it, as against the tyranny that would stifle its expression. " If to be honest as the world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand," to be honest as the mind works is to be one man of a million ; and such a man was Thelwall. Starting... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 328 pages
...wisdom that might mould it, as against the tyranny that would stifle its expression. " If to be honest as the world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand," to be honest as the mind works is to be one man of a million ; and such a man was Thelwall. Starting... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 156 pages
...There are more things in heaven and earth Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. The great man down, you mark his favourite... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Authors, English - 1849 - 270 pages
...wisdom that might mould it, as against the tyranny that would stifle its expression. " If to be honest as the world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand," to be honest as the mind works is to be one man of a million ; and such a man was Thelwall. Starting... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1850 - 392 pages
...wisdom that might mould it, as against the tyranny that would stifle its expression. "If to be honest as the world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand," to be honest as the mind works is to be one man of a million ; and such a man was Thelwall. Starting... | |
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Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. 
