 now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them ? ' ' Sir,' replied he, ' these are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them...  Shadows of the Old Booksellers - Page 89by Charles Knight - 1865 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 598 pages
...Lintot, now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them ? " " Sir," reply'd he, " those are the saddest pack of rogues in the world ; in a...of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and say, • ' The Earlier History of English Booksellers,' by W. Roberts, p. 157. 'Ay, ' Ay, this is Hebrew... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 592 pages
...language! one of them take down a Greek * ' The Earlier History of English ' Ay, this is Hebrew ; I must read it from the latter end.' By G— d ! I can never be sure in these fellows, for I neither understand Greek, Latin, French, nor Italian myself. But this is my... | |
 | 1893 - 448 pages
...company with Pope, Lintot is represented as having exclaimed, with reference to translators, " Sir, they are the saddest pack of rogues in the world; in a...they understand all the languages in the universe," and that he pays them at the rate of ten shillings per sheet for translations, which are corrected... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 pages
...(said I), now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them ? " Sir (replied he), they are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a...one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, Oh, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By G — d, I can never be sure of these fellows,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...(said I), now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them ? " Sir (replied he), they are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a...one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, Oh, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By G — d, I can never be sure of these fellows,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...(said I), now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them ? " Sir (replied he), they are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a...one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, Oh, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end. By G — d, I can never be sure of these fellows,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 824 pages
...said I, 'now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them?' 'Sir,' replied he, 'these are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a...Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end." By Gd, I can never be sure in these fellows, for I neither understand Greek, Latin, French, nor Italian... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 410 pages
...now you talk of translators, what IO is your method of managing them ? ' ' Sir,' replied he, * these are the saddest pack of rogues in the world: in a...is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end." 1 5 By Gd, I can never be sure in these fellows, for I neither understand Greek, Latin, French, nor... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...Giles' pound, shall make you half a Job. But his translators gave him most trouble. Sir, said he, they are the saddest pack of rogues in the world ; in a...them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, ' Ay, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.' By G—d, I can never be sure in these fellows,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 414 pages
...they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take d^wn a Greek book upon my counter and cry, "Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end.'* *5 By Gd, I can never be sure in these fellows, for I neither understand Greek, Latin, French, nor... | |
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