 plenty of travellers to do that with a pretended liberality : but I don't set up for a cosmopolite, which, to my mind, signifies being polite to every country except your own." " I have never heard the English accused," suggested your humble servant,...  The Works of Thomas Hood...: Prose works - Page 25by Thomas Hood - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - Rhine River - 1840 - 324 pages
...joke. I didn't say so before the Dutchman, because I don't choose to let down my native land: there's plenty of travellers to do that with a pretended liberality;—..."Not as to humankind, Frank: not as to humankind; but haven't we exterminated the bastards—I mean to say bustards; and haven't we got rid of the black... | |
 | Thomas Hood - Rhine River - 1840 - 430 pages
...joke. I didn't say so before the Dutchman, because I don't choose to let down my native land: there's plenty of travellers to do that with a pretended liberality...as to humankind, Frank : not as to humankind ; but haven't we exterminated the bastards—I mean to say bustards; and haven't we got rid of the black... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1840 - 416 pages
...let down my native land : there's plenty of travellers to do that with a pretended liberality;—but I don't set up for a cosmo-polite, which, to my mind,...as to humankind. Frank : not as to humankind ; but haven't we exterminated the bastards—I mean to say bustards; and haven't we got rid of the black... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 374 pages
...joke. I didn't say so before the Dutchman, because I don't choose to let down my native land : there's plenty of travellers to do that with a pretended liberality...as to humankind, Frank : not as to humankind ; but haven't we exterminated the bastards—I mean to say bustards ; and haven't we got rid of the black... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 472 pages
...choose to let down my native land : there's plenty of travellers to do that with a protendedliberality; but I don't set up for a cosmo-polite, which, to my...as to humankind, Frank : not as to humankind ; but haven't we exterminated the bastards—I mean to sny bustards ; and haven't we got rid of the black... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...one of those treading grounds where they rush in"-Heywood Broun (d. 1939)."! don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to my mind signifies being polite to every country except your own"— Thomas Hood, Up the Rhine (1840). Freedom of speech and freedom of publication are still debated concerns,... | |
 | Herb Galewitz - Reference - 2003 - 68 pages
...OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A glorious death is his who for his country falls. HOMER I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to my mind signifies being polite to every country except your own. If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it. THOMAS HOOD It is sweet and glorious to die for... | |
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