 | 1920 - 906 pages
...nothing when you are used to it."— Swift. "Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables." — Old Proverb. Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right, I've done it from my youth." — Crabbe. "Custom hath mad dotards of us "In this great society, wide lying around us, a critical... | |
 | 1893 - 1236 pages
...sprang from innovation ; it was then He spake of mischief made by restless men. Habit with him was nil the test of truth: It must be right ; I've done it from my youth." Sir Walter Scott, that magician of the past, was indeed, at the opening of the nineteenth century,... | |
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These were to him essentials; all things new He deem'd superfluous, useless, or untrue; To all beside indifferent, easy, cold, Here the fire kindled, and the wo was told. Habit with him was all the test of truth, 'It must be right: I've done it from my... 
