 | 1859 - 668 pages
...being considered great bores. Please to recollect that this species of bore is a most useful Miimal, well adapted for the ends for which nature intended...every interest works for itself, considers itself the albimportant one, and makes its way in the world by its own efforts. Is it, then, to be wondered at... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 pages
...begging-box, and expose themselves to refusals and rebuffs to which beggars are liable, with the certainty i besides of being considered great BORES. Please to...which is requisite to make his cause understood." A word which has thus been stamped with royal approval in a manner so signal, needs no further defence... | |
 | 1860 - 612 pages
...not weary you by further examples, with which most of you are better acquainted than I am myself, but merely express my satisfaction that there should exist...active, enterprising, and self-determining people like OBIS, where every interest works for itself, considers itself the all important one, and makes its... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1860 - 328 pages
...themselves to refusals and rebuffs, to which all beggars all liable, with the certainty besides ot being considered great BORES. Please to recollect...which is requisite to make his cause understood." BOSH", nonsense, stupidity. — Gipsey and Persian. Also pure Turkish, BOSH LAKERDI, empty talk. A... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1860 - 722 pages
...intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and tlie same requests, succeeds in awakening attention to...and makes its way in the world by its own efforts. Is it, then, to be wondered at, that the interests of Science, abstract as Science appears, and not... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1865 - 360 pages
...Please to recollect that this species of " bore " is a most useful animal, well adapted for the ends fur which nature intended him. He alone, by constantly...which is requisite to make his cause understood." BORE, (Pugilistic,) to press a man to the ropes of the ring by superior weight. BOSH, nonsense, stupidity.... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1869 - 602 pages
...same truths and the same reque-sts, Micceeds in awakening attention to the cause which he a-ivocates, and obtains that hearing which is granted him at last for selfprotection, aa the minor evil compared to hi* importunity, but which is requisite to make his cause understood."... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1872 - 378 pages
...hand round the begging-box, and expose themselves to refusals and rebuffs, to which all beggars all liable, with the certainty besides of being considered...selfprotection, as the minor evil compared to his importunity, buL-which is requisite to make his cause understood." BORE, (Pugilistic,) to press a man to the ropes... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1874 - 448 pages
...the certainty besides of being considered great BORES. Please to recollect that this species of EOKE is a most useful animal, well adapted for the ends...which is requisite to make his cause understood." Bore (Pugilistic}, to press a man to the ropes of the ring by superior weight. In the world of athletics... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1865 - 736 pages
...— who will even hand round the begging-box, and expose themselves to refusals and rebuffs to which beggars are liable, with the certainty besides of...which is requisite to make his cause understood." A word which has thus been stamped with royal approval in a manner so signal, needs no further defence... | |
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Please to recollect that this species of bore is a most useful animal, well adapted for the ends for which Nature intended him. He alone, by constantly returning to the charge, and repeating the same truths and the same requests, succeeds in awakening... 