...ditty. Methinks I now see bis tall tliin_emaciated figure, liii legs cased in clasped gambadoei, and hit face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Manclia's, and hear him exclaiming, ' One may as well speak io the mouth of a canuon as where that...

...Stentorian vociferation, as to draw from the minister of a neighbouring kirk, the testy exclamation, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon, as where that child is." On his removal to Edinburgh, in his eighth year, he was subjected to different influences. His worthy...

...not patience to have a sober chat interrupted by my shouting forth this ditty. Mcthinks 1 now вее his tall thin emaciated figure, his legs cased in...a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Manclia's, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that...

...Stentorian vociferation, as to draw from the minister of a neighbouring kirk, the testy exclamation, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon, as where that child is." On his removal to Edinburgh, in his eighth year, he was subjected to different influences. His worthy...

...stentorian vociferation, as to draw from the minister of a neighbouring kirk the testy exclamation, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." On his removal to Edinburgh, in his eighth year, he was subjected to different influences. His worthy...

...not patience to have a sober chat interrupted by my shouting forth this ditty. Methinks I now sec hie tall, thin, emaciated figure, his legs cased in clasped...a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha' s, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that...

...Duncan, who had not patience to have a sober chat interrupted by my shouting forth this ditty. Methinks I now see his tall thin emaciated figure, his legs cased...a cannon as where that child is." With this little aeidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman in every...

...fourteen, William Pitt was, "in intellect, a man." Said a clergyman of Walter Scott, when he was a boy, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon, as where that child is." Thomas De Quincey, when but fifteen years old, could converse fluently in Greek. " That boy," said...

...who used to say when Walter interrupted his sober converse by shouting out the deeds of Hardyknute, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." A good old man the doctor, and had known Pope and other worthies of the age of Queen Anne. Sheep-skins...

...Duncan, who had not patience to have a sober chat interrupted by my shouting forth this ditty. Methinks I now see his tall, thin, emaciated figure, his legs...may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where this child is.' " But despite this little outbreak, the doctor was a kind and benevolent man, and we...