 ... called him, and who, on the strength of this comprehensive experience, feels qualified to give the final decision in every case which tasks the resources of human wisdom, is a very much more humane and interesting gentleman than the Judge. Indeed,...  Character and Characteristic Men - Page 220by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1866 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel [two or more stories] Hawthorne - 1866 - 596 pages
...years. Can you tell me -whether there ever was a Pyncheon whom she takes after ?" XAY A NIi NOVEMRER. 65 back-yards, but at the street-corners, and on the wharves, and in other places where my business calls me; and I'm free to say, Miss Hepzibah, that I never knew a human creature do her... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 638 pages
...them, nor, for that matter, anywhere else. I Ve seen a great deal of the world, not only in pcople's kitchens and back-yards, but at the street-corners, and on the wharves, and in other places where my business calls me ; and I 'm free to say, Miss Hepzibah, that I never knew a human ereature do her... | |
 | 1888 - 958 pages
...a good deal of the world, not only in people's kitchens and back-yards, but at the street corners, and on the wharves, and in other places where his business called him ") are all real personages in their way, with an individuality and an amusing or teaching power which... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1907 - 582 pages
...a good deal of the world, not only in people's kitchens und back-yards, but at the street corners, and on the wharves, and in other places where his...Indeed, one cannot but regret that Hawthorne should be so economical of his undoubted stores of humor, — and that in the romances he wrote later, humor,... | |
 | 1860 - 804 pages
...Pyncheon and Holgravc, for more details of them and Phoebe. Uncle Venner, also, the old wood -sawyer, who boasts " that he has seen a good deal of the world,...Indeed, one cannot but regret that Hawthorne should be so economical of his undoubted stores of humor, — and that, in the two romances he has since written,... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 pages
...anything in Dickens for quaintly fanciful humor, the author seems to indulge in a sort of parody on his own doctrine of the hereditary transmission of...Indeed, one cannot but regret that Hawthorne should be so economical of his undoubted stores of humor, — and that, in the two romances he has since written,... | |
 | 1860 - 798 pages
...Pyncheon and Holgrave, for more details of them and Phoebe. Uncle Ven^. jier, also, the old wood -sawyer, who boasts " that he has seen a good deal of the world,...tasks the resources of human wisdom, is a very much morcjui"in"" °'"1 intnraat.iiig gotiflaman than the Judge. Indeed, one cannot but regret that Hawthorne... | |
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