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Been on the Chinee station afore. P'raps it's best, but I don't want 'em to be hung." "Don't hang 'em here, Tommy," growled one of the two silent men. "What do they do, then, old know-all?" "Chops their heads off, I've heerd." "Oh, well, I don't want 'em to have their heads chopped off. How should we like it if we was took prisoners?" "Oh, but we arn't Chinees," growled Billy Wakes.
Art thou guilty of this indictment, or not? Atheism. Not guilty. Crier. Call Mr. Know-All, Mr. Tell-True, and Mr. Hate-Lies into the court. So they were called, and they appeared. Then said the Clerk, 'You, the witnesses for the King, look upon the prisoner at the bar; do you know him? Then said Mr.
"Do you call yourself 'we'!" interjected Harvey, his utterance almost incoherent with anger; "you want to go to school again and get some learnin'." "Get some learnin', d'ye say, Mr Know-all? What has Gladstone done for the sailors, you an' me? That's a poser for you; and look at the money he gave away about the Alabama to the Yankees, instead of fightin' them for it like an Englishman.
Gentlemen, you, the witnesses for the King, come in and give in your evidence for our Lord the King against the prisoner at the bar. Clerk. Come, Mr. Know-All, look upon the prisoner at the bar; do you know him? Know. Yes, my lord, I know him. Clerk. What is his name? Know.
Know-All, what say you for our Lord the King against the prisoner at the bar? Know.
There was, of course, on the Lane a goodly representation of the genus "know-all," whose fortunes were really assured by reason of an infallible combination which they held or device which they had contrived.
He had been told by his employer the purpose for which the nine swords were wanted he had been told by Æsop against whom those nine swords were to be drawn and that was the extent of his knowledge. This time the hunchback, in his favorite character of know-all, took the lead.
But Mistris Know-all saith, that she hath made use of this also, and found some ease by it; and that she hath tried above an hundred other things, that were approved to be good; yet of all things never found nothing under the Sun that was more noble then Salvator Winter's Salve, for that cures immediately: And you can have nothing better.
Know-All, 'Yes, my lord, we know him; his name is Atheism; he has been a very pestilent fellow for many years in the miserable town of Mansoul. Clerk. You are sure you know him? Know. Know him! Yes my lord; I have heretofore too often been in his company to be at this time ignorant of him. He is a Diabolonian, the son of a Diabolonian: I knew his grandfather and his father. Clerk. Well said.
Know-all the children in the villages below ran after him and named him as they clustered round his staff and hid in the great folds of his shepherd's coat. Now, in all this John Bunyan speaks as a child to children; but, of such children as John Bunyan and his readers is the kingdom of heaven.
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