 I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like me — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it.  The Dublin university magazine - Page 97by University magazine - 1855Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...style in the inimitable Essays of Ella. He was born AD 1775, and died in 1834. IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES. I HAVE been trying all my life to like Scotchmen,...never knew one of that nation who attempted to do so. There is an order of imperfect intellects, under which mine must be content to rank, which in its... | |
 | Charlotte Eliza L. Riddell - 1874 - 322 pages
...trying all my life to like — " For the present purpose it is not needful to extract more closely, — "And am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair....knew one of that nation who attempted to do it.'' In a foot note to the same essay, he puts his idea even more clearly : " There may be individuals born... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...subject of imperfect symwthies. To nations or classes of men there can be no direct antipathy. •7 D I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen,...more plain and ingenuous in their mode of proceeding. We know one another at first sight. There is an order of imperfect intellects, (under which mine must... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 pages
...worthy man, who upon another account cannot be my mate oi'Ji'/ftrw. I cannot like all people alike.* I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen,...more plain and ingenuous in their mode of proceeding. We know one another at first sight. There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...worthy man, who upon another account cannot be my mate or fellow. I cannot like all people alike.1 I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen,...plain and in"genuous in their mode of proceeding. We know 1 I would be understood as confining myself to the subject of imperfect sympathies. To nations... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...worthy man, •who upon another account cannot be my mate or fellow. I cannot like all people alike.* Instances of this sort were perpetual. Yet S. was...niceties and embarrassments of conduct — from force » I would be understood a« confining myself to the iubject of imptrfed tympathie*. To nations or... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 672 pages
...or fellow. I cannot lite all people alike.1 I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and nm obliged to desist from the experiment in despair....more plain and ingenuous in their mode of proceeding. We know one another at first sight. There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...could give no other reason for the deed but an inveteI have been trying all my life to like Scotsmen, P. Nimmo & co. We know one another at first sight. There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1881 - 472 pages
...worthy man, who upon another account cannot be my mate or fellow. I cannot like all people alike.* I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen,...desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like nie, — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it. There is something more... | |
 | 1881 - 318 pages
...habit and experience should not be drawn from a playful, erratic, and humorous exercise of the kind: " I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen,...obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They can not like me — and, in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it. There is... | |
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