 | John Home - 1822 - 420 ページ
...jocularly proposed that they should determine the controversy by casting lots. " Nay," says John, " that is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr Philosopher...own name, and if I lose, I take another man's name." This he often told me with great glee, and nearly in these words. , • . Note by the Editor. As to... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 ページ
...jocularly proposed that they should determine the controversy by casting lots. " Nay," says John, " that is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr Philosopher...own name, and if I lose, I take another man's name." This he often told me with great glee, and nearly in these words. Note by the Editor. As to the port-wine,... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 ページ
...jocularly proposed that ihey should determine the controversy by casting lois. ' Nay," says John, ' that is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr. Philosopher...you lose, you take your own name, and if I lose-, 1 Uike another man's name.' This he* oflen lohl me with great glee, and nearly in these words." MEIKLE... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 ページ
...casting dice which should adopt the other's mode of spelling their name : — • ' " Nay," says John, " this is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr....name, and if I lose, I take another man's name.'" — vol. ip 164. • Before we leave this subject, we may mention to our readers, that the family pride... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 ページ
...casting dice which should adopt the other's mode of spelling their name : — • ' " Nay,'' says John, " this is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr....Philosopher' — for if you lose, you take your own nune, and if I lose, I take another man's name."' — vol. ip 164. Before we leave this subject, we... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 386 ページ
...casting dice which should adopt the other's mode of spelling their name :— *' ' Nay,' saya John, "this is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr...— for if you lose, you take your own name, and if 1 lose, I take another nun's name.' " — Vol. ip 164. Before we leave this subject, we may mention... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 ページ
...name :-— " ' Nay,' says John, "this is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr Philosopher—for if you lose, you take your own name, and if I lose, I take another man's name.' "—Vol. ip 164. Before we leave this subject, we may mention to our readers, that the family pride... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 ページ
...name:— " ' Nay,' says John, 'this is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr. Philosopher—for if you lose, you take your own name, and if I lose, I take another man's name.' "—Vol. i, p. 164. Before we leave this subject, we may mention to our readers, that the family pride... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 ページ
...decide by a cast of the dice which should adopt the other's mode of spelling : ' Nay,' says John, ' this is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr....own name, and if I lose, I take another man's name.' Mr. Lane's ingenious attempt to restore the orthography of the oriental names in the ' Arabian Nights'... | |
 | 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 - 1860 - 576 ページ
...possessed by Normans of the meanest birth and lowest stations.' — ' History of England,' ch. iv. Mr. Mr. Philosopher ; for if you lose, you take your own name, and if I lose I take another man's name.' * Mr. Lane's ingenious attempt to restore the orthography of the Oriental names in the ' Arabian Nights... | |
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this is a most extraordinary proposal indeed, Mr. Philosopher — for if you lose, you take your own name, and if I lose, I take another man's name. 
