 | 1810 - 1018 pages
...generous answer for a political enemy to make! Voltaire. f FRIENDSHIP. Old friends are best. King Jaraei used to call for his old shoes — they were easiest for his feet. — Seiden. CHEAT МБ* take great liberties, and expect t* be believed on their words. Bolingbroke.... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...the friars in their way) the church of England might have stood, and flourished at this day. FRIENDS. OLD friends are best. King James used to call for his old shofi : they were easiest for his feet. / GENEALOGY OF CHRIST. 1. THEY that say the reason why Joseph's... | |
 | George Moir - 1827 - 466 pages
...when we come to the king, there must be all obedience, and no liberty to be stood for. IX. FRIENDS. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet, x. HUMILITY. Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. — Swift. XXIX. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. — Selden. XXX. The conceit that a cat has nine lives, has cost at least nine lives in ten of the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. — Swift. XXIX. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his fcet.—Selden. XXX. The conceit that a cat has nine lives, has cost at least nine lives in ten of... | |
 | Sidney Willard - 1832 - 560 pages
...should come down, and then expects I should speak as loud to him as I did before." Vol. u. p. 186. "Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest to his feet." p. 169. " 'T was an unhappy division that has been made between faith and works. Though... | |
 | 1839 - 56 pages
...Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance. — Addison. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet. — Selden. LABOR AND INTELLECTUAL CULTIVATION. BY EHC Honor to the worker — to the toiler — to... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...us have more intellect and less jaw." — Physic and Physicians. FRIENDS. — Old friends are bent. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. — Selden. HUMILITY. — Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content... | |
 | 1842 - 648 pages
...me, at length should come down, and then expects I should speak as loud to him as I did before." " Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet." " 'Twas an unhappy division that has been made between faith and works. Though in my... | |
 | 1855 - 602 pages
...he bend once, he will bend again. To the text of " Old friends are best," his illustration is, that King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet. Moralizing on the changes which had affected the court of England, he pleasantly says, that as, at... | |
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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet. 
