Mr Escot, who was somewhat younger than Mr Foster, but rather more pale and saturnine in his aspect, here took up the thread of the discourse, observing that the proposition just advanced seemed to him perfectly contrary to the true state of the case:... Headlong Hall - Side 8af Thomas Love Peacock - 1816 - 217 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 462 sider
...tlio thread of the discourse, observing, that the proposition just advanced seemed to him perfectly contrary to the true state of the case : " for," said...wretchedness : your improvements proceed in a simple ratio, wliile the factitious wants and unnatural appetites they engender proceed in a compound one ; and thus... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1891 - 188 sider
...the thread of the discourse, observing, that the proposition just advanced seemed to him perfectly contrary to the true state of the case : " for," said...only so many links in the great chain of corruption, * Caster : scilicet Tan-nip— Venter, et prseterea nihil. which will soon fetter the whole human race... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1896 - 276 sider
...up the thread of the discourse, observing that the proposition just advanced seemed to him perfectly contrary to the true state of the case : ' for,' said he, ' these improvements, as you call 1 Foster, quasi Quffnjp, — from </>aos and TTjpeaj, lucem servo, conservo, observo, custodio, —... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1896 - 278 sider
...up the thread of the discourse, observing that the proposition just advanced seemed to him perfectly contrary to the true state of the case : ' for,, said he, ' these improvements, as you call 1 Foster, quasi 3,wa'Trjp, — from <f>a.os and Tr!pew, lucem servo, conservo, observo, custodio, —... | |
| Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 sider
...demonstrates their gradual advancement towards a state of unlimited perfection', only to hear Mr Escot reply: 'These improvements, as you call them, appear to me...whole human race in irreparable slavery and incurable wretchedness.'24 Peacock closed this conversation by accepting that the new distribution of wealth... | |
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