 He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's...  Episodes of Fiction - Page 581870 - 304 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1856 - 606 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes...courageous soul would respect and care for them. He could not be so brave, generous, truth-telling as he is, were he not infinitely merciful, pitiful,... | |
 | 1916 - 880 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes...one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings. And beside him, akin in courage and kindliness, but slighter and frailer, glides the gracious figure... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes...courageous soul would respect and care for them. He could not be so brave, generous, truth-telling as he is, were he not infinitely merciful, pitiful,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes...courageous soul would respect and care for them. He could not be so brave, generous, truth-telling as he is, were he not infinitely merciful, pitiful,... | |
 | 1853 - 436 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes...lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern. . . . He may have low tastes, but not a mean mind; he admires with all his heart good and virtuous men, stoops... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes...courageous soul would respect and care for them. He could not be so brave, generous, truth-telling as he is, were he not infinitely merciful, pitiful,... | |
 | 1855 - 604 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. h N= Y ؉ eQv5 i 4 ʲ ; c_ rH R# f% O r~ c/ }\z | ... | i yC/ 7S) T;0 Bz? ѰЛ Ԣ @ m b P5 > p E %[ a D could not be so brave, generous, truth-telling as he is, were he not infinitely merciful, pitiful,... | |
 | 1855 - 504 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy ; the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes...lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern." Thackeray's theory of life is by no means that of a misanthropist. His philosophy, on the contrary,... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 398 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective : it flashes upon a rogue, and lightens upon a rascal like a policeman's lantern. He is one of the manliest and kindliest of human beings :... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 lehte
...the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes...courageous soul would respect and care for them. He could not be so brave, generous, truth-telling as he Is, were he not infinitely merciful, pitiful,... | |
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