 Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife? Did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way? Whereas, if he had used a razor, or a penknife, he had odds against him of spoiling a whole sheet.  The Lounger: A Periodical Paper - Page 261787Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 510 pages
...common understandings ; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife ? did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way ? whereas, if he had used a razor, or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 504 pages
...common understandings ; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife ? did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way ? whereas, if he had used a razor, or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 504 pages
...common understandings ; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife ? did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way ? whereas, if he had used a razor, or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1885 - 338 pages
...common understandings ; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife ? did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way ? whereas, if he had used a razor or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 212 pages
...common understandings ; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife? did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way? whereas, if he had used a razor or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 212 pages
...•understandings; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife? did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way? whereas, if he had used a razor or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1884 - 892 pages
...way in the courts of kings. " Did you ever," he said, writing to Lord Bolingbroke in 1719, " observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife? Did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way ? Whereas if he had used a penknife or a razor, he had odds against him... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1912 - 508 pages
...common understandings; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife? Did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way? Whereas, if he had used a razor, or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1917 - 248 pages
...common understandings ; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife ? Did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way ? Whereas, if he had used a razor, or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1926 - 396 pages
...common understandings; while one great genius is hardly found among ten millions. Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife? Did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way? Whereas, if he had used a razor, or a penknife, he had odds against him... | |
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