Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 9, 2025
At first the Knight thought it was Dr. Bowring; but on coming nearer he heard a man with a scarlet livery and a cocked hat, call out, 'Walk in, ladies and gentlemen the most vonderful curiosity ever exhibited only one shilling the vild man from Chippoowango, in Africay eats raw wittles without being cooked, and many other surprising and pleasing performances.
When Mme. de Staël came to England, she said to Dumont: 'Tell Bentham I shall see nobody till I have seen him. 'I am sorry for it, said Bentham, 'for then she will never see anybody. And he summed up his opinion of the famous author of Corinne by calling her 'a trumpery magpie. There is a simplicity and vivacity about some of the sayings reported by Bowring, which prove that Bentham could talk well, and increase our regret for the absence of a more efficient Boswell.
He has enough money, and I'm not absolutely penniless, though we are as poor as church mice " "For Heaven's sake, don't suggest such a thing!" cried Mrs. Bowring. Her face was white, and her lips trembled. There was a frightened look in her pale eyes, and she turned her face quickly to her daughter, and quickly away again. "Mother!" exclaimed the young girl, in surprise.
Bowring looked at the distant sky-haze thoughtfully for a few moments, then opened her book again where her thin forefinger had kept the place, and began to read. There was no disappointment in her face at not being understood, for she had spoken almost to herself and had expected no reply.
Bowring one morning, with what seemed unnecessary vehemence. Clare's lip curled scornfully as she thought of poor Lady Fan. "There isn't the slightest danger of that!" she answered. "Any more than there is of my falling in love with him," she added. "Are you sure of that?" asked her mother. "You seem to like him. Besides, he is very nice, and very good-looking." "Oh yes of course he is.
If a lady takes a letter to Sir John Bowring, and he has illness in his family and cannot ask her to dinner, he comes to call on her, he sends her tickets for every sort of flower show, the museums, the Botanical Garden, and all the fine things; he sends her his carriage he evidently has her on his mind.
It is painful to add that according to Bowring the two became so much alienated in the end, that in 1827 Bentham refused to see Dumont, and declared that his chief interpreter did 'not understand a word of his meaning. Bowring attributes this separation to a remark made by Dumont about the shabbiness of Bentham's dinners as compared with those at Lansdowne House a comparison which he calls 'offensive, uncalled-for, and groundless. Bentham apparently argued that a man who did not like his dinners could not appreciate his theories: a fallacy excusable only by the pettishness of old age.
The young girl descended the steps, and the two began to walk up and down together on the platform. "Those were two of the people from the yacht that I met at the door," said Mrs. Bowring. "The lady in white serge, and that good-looking young man." "Yes," Clare answered. "They were here some time. I don't think they saw me."
It was this same Sir John Bowring, by the way, who first aroused Robert Hart's interest in Chinese life and customs subjects on which so many foreigners in China remain pitifully ignorant all their lives. "Study everything around you," said he to the young man. "Go out and walk in the street and read the shop signs. Bend over the bookstalls and read titles. Listen to the talk of the people.
In reply Dr Bowring commended the scheme, and promised to assist "by every sort of counsel and exertion. We must then think of how best to get at the Council. If by any management they can be induced to ask my opinion, I will give you a character which shall take you to the top of Hecla itself. You have claims, strong ones, and I should rejoice to see you NICHED in the British Museum."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking