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What said Statius, Juvenal let alone Tully or Tacitus on such and such a point? Their reign is over now, the good old Heathens: the worship of Jupiter and Juno is not more out of mode than the cultivation of Pagan poetry or ethics. The age of economists and calculators has succeeded, and Tooke's Pantheon is deserted and ridiculous.
There was that sneer about Mr Carnaby's nose which made everybody sorry now for Dale: but everybody started, Mr Carnaby and all, at Mr Tooke's voice, close at hand. How much he had seen and heard, there was no knowing; but it was enough to make him look extremely stern. "Are these boys not caned yet, Mr Carnaby?" "No, sir: I have not I " "Have they been standing here all this while?" "Yes, sir.
Tooke's amendment; he thinks he withdrew his amendment, and moved it as a separate motion; he said it was then carried as unanimously as his own motion had been; that original motion and separate motion are in these words: 'That this meeting does most cordially rejoice in the establishment and confirmation of liberty in France; and it beholds with peculiar satisfaction the sentiments of amity and good will which appear to pervade the people of that country towards this kingdom, especially at a time when it is the manifest interest of both states that nothing should interrupt the harmony which at present subsists between them, and which is so essentially necessary to the freedom and happiness, not only of the French nation, but of all mankind.
"To my bed!" said the master, when he saw: and in an instant the gardener had his orders to saddle Mr Tooke's horse, and ride to London for an eminent surgeon: stopping by the way to beg Mr and Mrs Shaw to come, and bring with them the surgeon who was their neighbour, Mr Annanby. "Who did it?" "Who pulled him down?" passed from mouth to mouth of the household.
His fondness for talking of himself had grown to such excess as to destroy the conversational talents which all his contemporaries who speak of him describe as remarkable. "I will venture to say that the best thing will be said by Mr. Paine": that was Horne Tooke's prophecy, talking of some proposed dinner-party.
Clifford took some pains to persuade me out of my ridiculous notions; yet, in the account which he gave me of Mr. Tooke's character, he in some measure confirmed me in the opinion that I had previously formed, as Mr. Tooke certainly made Sir F. Burdett a puppet to carry on his hostility against those ministers who had persecuted him, and aimed a deadly blow at his life. Mr.
With the best cause to defend, he comes off more shabbily from the contest than any other person in the LETTERS, except Sir William Draper, who is the very hero of defeat. The great thing which Mr. It is, in truth, one of the few philosophical works on Grammar that were ever written. Mr. Tooke's work is truly elementary. Dr. Lowth described Mr.
Phil stopped all who had started off saying that it was his business; and the next moment, Phil was at Mr. Tooke's study-door, asking leave of absence till supper. "Little Holt has been beforehand with you," said Mr. Tooke. "I refused him, however, as he is not so fit as you to be out after dark. Off with you!"
Though Mr Tooke's face was still white, Holt ventured up to him, "Pray, sir " "Not a word of intercession for those boys," said the master. "I will not hear a word in their favour." "Then, sir " "Well." "I only want to say, then, that Proctor told no tales, sir. I did not mean any harm, sir, but I told because "
In a day or two, when Hugh had had time to think, he began to be glad on Tooke's account; and he found an opportunity of saying to him one day, "I never should have gone to India if I had not lost my foot; and I think it is well worth while losing my foot to go to India." "Do you really? or do you say it because " "I think so really."
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