| John McGilchrist - 1860 - 404 sider
...apparent ease. He used to say, when objections were made to the miscellaneous nature of his studies — " Never mind ; — if you have the scaffolding ready, you can run up the masonry when you please." By his perseverance and strong determination, he became acquainted, not only with Greek and Latin,... | |
| Charles Rogers - 1867 - 328 sider
...character, some one remonstrated with him on the circumstance. He replied, using his usual interjection, " Dash it, man, never mind ; if you have the scaffolding...ready, you can run up the masonry when you please." On board an Indian vessel he was boasting of his agility, when two gentlemen betted twenty gold mohrs... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 sider
...apparent ease. He used to say, when objections were made to the miscellaneous nature of his studies — " Never mind; — if you have the scaffolding ready, you can run up the masonry when you please." It must not, however, be inferred that because his retentive memory could thus accomplish much, the same... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 552 sider
...occasionally the superficial, nature of his studies, he used to answer with his favourite interjection, " Dash it, man, never mind : if you have the scaffolding...ready, you can run up the masonry when you please." But this mode of study, however successful with John Leyden, cannot be safely recommended to a student... | |
| John Leyden, W. W. Tulloch - 1875 - 120 sider
...being able to possess any more than a very superficial knowledge of any of them, he used to say, " Dash it, man, never mind ; if you have the scaffolding...ready you can run up the masonry when you please." He spent the long Scotch vacations chiefly at home, and finding his father's little cottage not very... | |
| John Leyden - 1875 - 950 sider
...he ought to narrow his sphere of study. " Dash it, man, never mind," replied the ardent student, " if you have the scaffolding ready, you can run up the masonry when you please." It was evidently his method to replenish his mind with -every thing that savoured of learning. The privations... | |
| Archibald Constable, Robert Pearse Gillies - 1876 - 354 sider
...college course was ended, he had made himself master of German, French, Spanish, Italian, Icelandic, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. When some one objected...the recommendation of Professor Dalzel, he became in 1 796 tutor to the sons of Mr. Campbell of Fairfield, in whose family, Sir Walter tells us, he was... | |
| 1888 - 600 sider
...occasionally the superficial, nature of his studies, he used to answer with his favourite interjection, "Dash it, man, never mind ; if you have the scaffolding...ready, you can run up the masonry when you please." The vacations which Leyden spent at home were employed in arranging, methodising, and enlarging the... | |
| 1893 - 970 sider
...and to those who objected to a want of concentration in his studies he used to answer, " Man ! when you have the scaffolding ready you can run up the masonry when you please ! " and the advantage of his following this maxim bore good fruit afterwards. At last, he qualified... | |
| Henry Grey Graham - 1901 - 536 sider
...satisfied that his multifarious knowledge could issue in solid work, " Dash it, man," he would say, " if you have the scaffolding ready, you can run up the masonry when you please." He was to die at Batavia at the age of thirty-six, great as an Orientalist and of repute as a poet.... | |
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