 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 444 pagina’s
...magistrates and rulers. The surname of Twiller is said to be a corruption of the original Twijfler, which in English means doubter, a name admirably descriptive...adherents, who affirmed that he always conceived every object on so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pagina’s
...magistrates and rulers. The surname of Twiller is said to be a corruption of the original Twijfler, which in English means doubter, a name admirably descriptive...adherents, who affirmed that he always conceived every object on so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both... | |
 | 1902 - 424 pagina’s
...remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself, like an oyster, and rarely spoke except in monosyllables; but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1903 - 504 pagina’s
...remark, which I would not for 25 the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself like an oyster, and rarely spoke except in monosyllables, but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1903 - 504 pagina’s
...remark, which I would not for as the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself like an oyster, and rarely spoke except in monosyllables, but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible... | |
 | Thomas Lansing Masson, Thomas L. Masson - 1903 - 216 pagina’s
...remark, which I would not, for the universe, have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself, like an oyster, and rarely spoke, except in monosyllables; but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 296 pagina’s
...which I would not for as 212 the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself like an oyster, and rarely spoke except in monosyllables, but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1904 - 462 pagina’s
...remark, which I would not, for the universe, have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself, like an oyster, and rarely spoke, except in monosyllables; but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 296 pagina’s
...remark, which I would not for 25 the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself like an oyster, and rarely spoke except in monosyllables, but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 316 pagina’s
...remark, which I would not, for the universe, have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller. It is true he was a man shut up within himself, like an oyster, and rarely spoke, except in monosyllables; but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible... | |
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... of a man of quick parts; by the other many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom. 
