 The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic...  The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts - Pagina 220geredigeerd door - 1916 - 471 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1916 - 792 pagina’s
...dreadful close, Bu.t breathless all, Fitz-James arose. CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834) THE TWO RACES OF MEN in the lusty brawn, By old blue-coated serving-man...Then the grim boar's-head frowned on high Crested u'ho lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1917 - 890 pagina’s
...statement that immediately arrests attention. " The human species," thus he begins The Two Races of Men, " according to the best theory I can form of it, is...distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend." " I have no ear — " are the opening words of A Chapter on Ears. Wealth of allusion, apt metaphor... | |
 | Josiah Sibley - 1918 - 220 pagina’s
...these two races. What are these two races of men? Charles Lamb in one of his essays of Elia remarks, " The human species according to the best theory I can...it is composed of two distinct races, the men who barrow and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent... | |
 | Joseph Tatlow - 1920 - 274 pagina’s
...authority. Pay-day was also the time for squaring accounts. " The human species," Charles Lamb says, " is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend." This was true of our office, but no equal division prevailed as the borrowers predominated and the... | |
 | Charles Tindal Gatty - 1921
...borrower's repayment, is not yet determined. Charles Lamb touched this human foible with exquisite humour. "The human species, according to the best theory I...of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, and red men. All the dwellers upon earth, ' Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites,' flock hither and do... | |
 | 1926 - 832 pagina’s
...and in both the Native is a master of courtesy. The author of Elia tells us that the human species is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. All the dwellers upon earth flock hither and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary... | |
 | 1924 - 778 pagina’s
...Lamb wrote in his essay, 'The Two Races of Men,' is applicable to nations as well as individuals: — The human species, according to the best theory I...distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. . . . The infinite superiority of the former, which I choose to designate as the great race, is discernible... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 pagina’s
...can "snug together" (Letters, 2:285), the varied races of mankind cannot. Ella's initial reference to "those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men," and "all the dwellers upon earth, Tarthians, and Medes, and Elamites' " (Works, 2: 22) is considerably... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagina’s
...Rochefoucauld on ANECDOTES, CONVERSATION; DULLNESS; Churchill on FANATICS; Emerson on HEROES Borrowing The human species, according to the best theory I...distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist, critic Do not be made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pagina’s
...philosopher. Unpacking My Library (1 93 1 ; repr. in Illuminations, «I. by Hannah Arendt. 1968). 3 it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. ... CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834), English essayist, crilic. Essays of ilia. -The Two Races of Men" (1 820-23).... | |
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