 THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion...  History of Civilisation - Page 192by William Alexander Mackinnon - 1846Full view - About this book
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...and he would have his cook dress one dish, and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. LIBELS. THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see...complexion of the times so well, as ballads and libels. LITURGY. 1. TH ERE is no church without a liturgy, nor indeed can there be conveniently, as there ii... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. LIBELS. THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet yon may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw...complexion of the times so well, as ballads and libels. LITURGY. 1. THERE is no church without a liturgy, nor indeed can there be conveniently, as there is... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...I. is cook dress one dish, and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. LIBELS. Though some may make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how...complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels. 1. There is no church without a liturgy, nor indeed can there be conveniently, as there is no school... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...his cook dress one dish, and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. LIBELS. Though some may make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how...complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels. LITURGY. 1. There is no church without a liturgy, nor indeed can there be conveniently, as there is... | |
 | John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...would have his cook dress one dish, and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. Though some may make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how...complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels. LITURGY. 1. There is no church without a liturgy, nor indeed can there be conveniently, as there is... | |
 | George Moir - Anecdotes - 1827 - 466 pages
...a straw, and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you sball not do by casting up a stone : more solid things do...complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels. XVIII. MARRIAGE. 1. Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people ;... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: as, take* a straw and throw it up in the air, you shall see by that which way the wind...complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels. — Selden. DXXXVI. Nothing grieves a real artist more, than that indifference of the public, which... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: as, take a straw and throw it up in the air, you shall see by that which way the wind...More solid things do not show the complexion of the tunes so well as ballads and libels. — Selden. uxxxvi. Nothing grieves a real artist more, than that... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...precept, of the Koran. — Vide Erpeniut and La Rogue, Voy. a Palestine. Influence of Hallads. — More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.— Selden. Of the truth of this, the songs of Beranger furnish a remarkable instance. 2. — HISTORICAL.... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1830 - 688 pages
...sits. As, take a straw, and throw it up into the air. you shall see by that which way the wind sets, which you shall not do by casting up a stone ; more...complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.— Selden's Table Talk. These, however, are positions which must be carefully limited to those cases where... | |
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