 THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion...  Tales and Novels: Vivian - 21 ページMaria Edgeworth 著 - 1835全文表示 - この書籍について
 | John Selden - 1786 - 190 ページ
...cook dress one dish, and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. LIBELS. T. TH OU GH some marke slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits: as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall sea by that which way the wind is, which... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 ページ
...territory, the other shall take up arms against him; and yet they do it upon such an occasion. SELDEN. THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as, take a a straw, and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 462 ページ
...learned." The following sentence of Selden's has been often quoted, as displaying political sagacity : " Though some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as, take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 412 ページ
...Commissioner, with his best spectacles, read them all. For he well knew and believed what the sage Selden saith, that, ." Though some make slight of libels,...straws which way the wind set, the Commissioner began with all .possible skill and dexterity to trim his boat. But dexterous trimmer though he was, and:"... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 404 ページ
...Commission-, er, with his best spectacles, read them all. For he well knew and believed what the sage Selden saith, that, ' . •' .: " Though some make slight...the wind sets." After determining by the throwing upof these straws which way the wind set, the . Commissioner began with all possible skill and dexterity... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 404 ページ
...spectacles, read them all. For he well knew and believed what the sage Selden saith, that, : ; * .jj " Though some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wiud sets." , .', .*' After determining by the throwing upof these straws which way the wind set, the... | |
 | 1818 - 506 ページ
...European Mngatinc. SCANDAL. rrillOUGH some (says Selden, refer-* ing to the state of Britain in 1645) make slight of libels ; yet you may see by them how the wind sits. As, take a straw, and throw it up in the air, and you shall see by that which way the wind is,... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 ページ
...and he would have his cook dress one dish, and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. LIBELS. THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1819 - 378 ページ
...I. is cook dress one dish, and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. LIBELS. Though some may make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw, and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is,... | |
 | 1821 - 328 ページ
...his cook dress one dish, and his coachman another, his porter a third, &c. LIBELS. Though some may make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw, and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is,... | |
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