 | 1877 - 826 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid ; and fine young men who work...which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 854 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid ; and fine young men who work...Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny 1 and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 808 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid ; and fine young men who work themselves into a decline, Rnd are driven off in a hearse with white plumes upon it. Would you not suppose these persons had been... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid ; and fine young men who work...which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid ; and fine young men who work...which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centre-point of all the universe? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid; and fine young men who work...which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid; and fine young men who work...which they play their farces •was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid ; and fine young men who work...into a decline, and are driven off in a hearse with Si white plumes upon it. Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 302 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid ; and fine young men who work...which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless... | |
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And yet you see merchants who go and labour themselves into a great fortune and thence into the bankruptcy court; scribblers who keep scribbling at little articles until their temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set... 
