 | William Drysdale - 1900 - Страниц: 540
...Edinburgh Review." " But it was," he afterwards explained, "too near the truth to be admitted ; so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, read a single line."] CHAPTER XXII. THE WORLD OF LETTERS. LITERATURE is the tongue... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - Страниц: 888
...cultivate literature upon a little oatmeal." But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so playing fieldpieces from the hills, which were so close as to command had, I am sure, ever read a single line ; and so began what has since turned out to be a very important... | |
 | 1903 - Страниц: 1272
...'We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.' But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, ever read a single line, and so began what has since turned out to be a very important... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1904 - Страниц: 500
...cultivate literature upon a little oatmeal '). But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus,...none of us, I am sure, had ever read a single line." — Lady Holland's Memoir of the Rev. S. Smith, London, 1855, 8vo, vol. ip 23. 1194. Judii io perpende,... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1904 - Страниц: 296
...We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal." But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, ever read a single line ; and so began what has since turned out to be a very important... | |
 | 1905 - Страниц: 654
...We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.' But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, ever read a single line ; and so began what has since turned out to be a very important... | |
 | 1902 - Страниц: 438
...cultivate literature upon a little oatmeal.” But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, ever read a single line; and so began what has since turned out to be a very important... | |
 | 1907 - Страниц: 946
...cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. ' But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, ever read a single line." He continued to write for the Review for the next quarter... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1911 - Страниц: 1118
...little oatmeal.' But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto1 from Publius Syrus, of whom, none of us, I am sure, had ever read a single line." He continued to write for the Review for the next quarter of a century, and his brilliant articles... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - Страниц: 586
...cultivate literature upon a little oatmeal." But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, ever read a single line; and so began what has since turned out to be a very important... | |
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But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, ever read a single line; and so began what has since turned out to be a very important and able journal. 
