| 1919 - 1122 pages
...well enough in his heart of hearts. "Above all things," he once wrote, "let no unwary reader believe in me. In that I write at all I am among the damned....him believe in the music of Handel, the painting of Gentile Bellini, and in the thirteenth chapter of St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians." These... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1884 - 354 pages
...the study of which there is but one schooling — to have had good forefathers for many generations. Above all things let no unwary reader do me the injustice...chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians. But to return. Whenever we find people knowing that they know this or that, we have the same story... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1914 - 626 pages
...he directs the reader who would have further understanding on all that is most important in life, to believe in the music of Handel, the painting of Giovanni...chapter of St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians — counsel which he repeated in various forms again and again. So, according to Butler, St Paul after... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1914 - 634 pages
...he directs the reader who would have further understanding on all that is most important in life, to believe in the music of Handel, the painting of Giovanni...thirteenth chapter of St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians—counsel which he repeated in various forms again and again. So, according to Butler,... | |
| Gilbert Cannan - 1915 - 206 pages
...their own native faith, then they certainly must not get out of their quandary by believing in him. " Above all things, let no unwary reader do me the injustice...me. In that I write at all I am among the damned." To avoid any such danger he appeals to his reader with as little artifice as possible, and uses language... | |
| John Frederick Harris - 1916 - 316 pages
...these things. Equally they were puzzled by a writer who flatly told them not to believe in him : " Above all things, let no unwary reader do me the injustice...in me. In that I write at all I am among the damned " — and that he was simply making the best of a bad job. This kind of temper they were quite unable... | |
| Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pages
...commandment and my second should be like unto it. If my readers must believe in anything, let them believe in the music of Handel, the painting of Giovanni...chapter of St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians. " It is not the church in the village that is the source of mischief, but the rectory. I would not... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1920 - 232 pages
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| Samuel Butler - 1923 - 294 pages
...for the Study of which there is but one schooling- to have had good forefathers for many generations. /Above all things, let no unwary reader do me the...chapter of St. Paul's FirSt Epistle to the Corinthians. But to return. Whenever we find people knowing that they know this or that, we have the same Story... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1926 - 562 pages
...in the world. For all the mouths they make at one another they play into each other's hands and 1 " Above all things, let no unwary reader do me the injustice...Bellini, and in the thirteenth chapter of St. Paul's Fir& Epistle to the Corinthians " (Life and Habit, close of chapter 2). 340 have got on so well as... | |
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