 | 1825 - 574 lehte
...few faults, should have made two volumes so utterly worthless as to defy all criticism. The worst and the best that can be said of them is, that they are good for nothing. They contain four tales, professing to be pictures of English Life. If they be really... | |
 | Richard Chenevix - 1832 - 608 lehte
...and consist more in happy perceptions than in reasonings ; in verbal felicities than in thought ; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are extremely clever. The letters of Madame de Sevigm• stand very prominent among these works, and are... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 lehte
...is difficult to pronounce whether they savour more of the age of the poet, or of the poet's old age. The best that can be said of them is, that they are very odd, at all events, and might afford subjects for much interesting speculation to the Society... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 lehte
...is difficult to pronounce whether they savour more of the age of the poet, or of the poet's old age. The best that can be said of them is, that they are very odd, at all events, and might afford subjects for much interesting speculation to the Society... | |
 | William Swainson - 1834 - 476 lehte
...of the best artists then to be met with in France : they are very inferior to those of Edwards ; and the best that can be said of them is, that they are recognisable. That they even still continue to be essential for purposes of reference, is entirely... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 lehte
...Ionic columns, without a single touch of originality or genial feeling in any one of the buildings. The best that can be said of them is that they are a degree less miserably bald than those of Laing. encouragement from professional men, while one that... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1845 - 534 lehte
...elephant is ! " " How majestic the lion I" And very likely — when they are at liberty ! As prisoners, the best that can be said of them is, that they are re- j markabiy disagreeable. As for the elephant, his want of symmetry renders him hideous. One animal,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1846 - 536 lehte
...society. As for the Mahomedans, they are traitorous and worthless vagabonds ; and as for the Christians, the best that can be said of them is, that they are good astronomers and mathematicians. This is why the government employs the latter to correct the calendar... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1847 - 560 lehte
...society. As for the Mahomedans, they are traitorous and worthless vagabonds ; and as for the Christians, the best that can be said of them is, that they are good astronomers and mathematicians. This is why the government employs the latter to correct the calendar;... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1847 - 438 lehte
...meaning or order, according to the ingenuity or caprice of the expositor, and are disposed to think that the best that can be said of them is, that they were not intended to be understood or arranged ; they read the Scriptures, but it is with no expectation... | |
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The best that can be said of them is, that they are befooled by their own fancies, and the victims of distempered brains and ill habits of body. 
