 | Edmund Burke - History - 1773 - 590 pages
...fomc papers, the nearly finifhed labour of many years was in flames, and almoil confumed to afhes. This lofs, as Sir Ifaac was then very far advanced...exclamation, « Oh ! Diamond ! Diamond ! thou little knowelt the mifchief thou hail done !' Sir Ifaac lived a batchelor ; and, as the author was informed... | |
 | American literature - 1787 - 430 pages
...nearly finifhed labour of many years was in flames, and almoit confumed to afhes. This lofs, as he was then very far advanced in years, was irretrievable...Diamond ! thou little knoweft the " mifchief thou haft done ! " — OH, lovely Truth! faywhere's thy dwelling found ; Where fhall I fix my fcot on folid... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1793 - 444 pages
...fome papers, the nearly finifhed labour of many years was in flames, and allmoft confumed to afhes. This lofs, as Sir Ifaac was then very far advanced...! Diamond ! thou little knoweft the mifchief thou Kafl done;"— Related ' by the Bi/bap of L. and C, When the ilhiftrious Alfred, King of Britain, was... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1795 - 608 pages
...the nearly finifhed labour of many years, which was in flames, and almofl confumed to afhes.—This lofs, as Sir Ifaac was then very far advanced in years, was irretrievable; vet without once ftriking the dog, he only rebuk'd him with this exclamation, Oh! Diamond/ Diamond!... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1795 - 594 pages
...papers, the nearly finifhed labour of many years, which was in flames, and almofl. confumed to ames. — This lofs, as Sir Ifaac was then very far advanced in years, was irre, trievable; yet without once ftriking the dog, he only rebuk'd him with this exclamation, Oh!... | |
 | History - 1800 - 576 pages
...nearly unfilled labo'ur of many years was in flames, and almoft confumed to aflies. This lofs, a? ¡5¡r Ifaac was then very far advanced in years, was irretrievable;...the dog, he only rebuked him with this exclamation, 4 Oh! Diamond ! Diamond ! thou little^noweft the mifchief thou haft done!' Sir Ifaac lived a bachelor... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 344 pages
...fome papers, the nearly finifhed labour of many years was in flames, and almo1t confumed to afhes. This lofs, as Sir Ifaac was then very far advanced...without once ftriking the dog, he only rebuked him with thisexclamation, "Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowefl the mifchief thou haft done !" . He was... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 310 pages
...flames, and ahnoft confumed to afhes. This lofs, as Sir Ifaac was then very fur advanced in vears, •was irretrievable ; yet, without once ftriking the dog, he only rebuked him with thisexclamation, "Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knoweft the mifchief thou haft done !" He was indeed... | |
 | Charles Buck - Children - 1808 - 374 pages
...labour of many years,) which soon were in flames, and almost consumed to ashes. This loss, as Sir Isaac was then very far advanced in years, was irretrievable ; yet, without once striking the dog, he only rebuked him. with this exclamation: •" Oh, Diamond ! Diamond ! you little... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 362 pages
...labour of many years,) which soon were in flames, and almost consumed to ashes. This loss, as Sir Isaac was then very far advanced in years, was irretrievable ; yet, without once striking the dog, he only rebuked him with this exclamation : " Oh, Diamond ! Diamond ! you little... | |
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... was left behind. When Sir Isaac returned, having been absent but a few minutes, he had the mortification to find that Diamond, having... 
