 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sidor
...services, is nothing. To be as good as their word is all the expense and difficulty. — Bruyere. DXXXV. Though some make slight of libels, yet you may see...how the wind sits: as, take* a straw and throw it up in the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone.... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1830 - 688 sidor
...civium. Cic. de Ainic. 502. Though some make slight or libels, yet you may see by them (observes Selden,) how the wind 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 solid... | |
 | 1831 - 368 sidor
...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...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... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1835 - 424 sidor
...libels proves that the feeling of the people was largely against the parliament, for, as Selden said, " 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 blows, which you will not do by casting up a stone. More solid... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1835 - 398 sidor
...libels proves that the feeling of the people was largely against the parliament, for, as Selden said, " 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 blows, which you will not do by casting up a stone. More solid... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 514 sidor
...his best epectacles, read them all ; for he well knew and believed what the sage Sclden saith, that " though some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sets." After determining, by the throwing up of these straws, which way the wind set, the commissioner... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1841 - 418 sidor
...his best spectacles, read them all; for he well knew and believed what the sage Selden saith, that "though some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sets." Count Altenberg's letters had unveiled completely the envoy Cunningham Falconer's treachery... | |
 | 1843 - 60 sidor
...choses, et n'aime a faire qne les bonnes.'* MONTAIGNE. '* Though some may make slight of Pamphlets, 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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1810 - 726 sidor
...make a speech tor my lord mayor, he desirt'd to take measure of his lordship's mouth." Libels — " 1. Though some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: a> take a straw and throw it up into the air, y*u shall see by that which way the wind is, which you... | |
 | Catharine Crowe - 1844 - 344 sidor
...calling up the officers, delivered himself into their hands. CHAPTEK XXXIV. " Though some make light 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... | |
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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... 
