Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. Psychological Review - Page 1281881Full view - About this book
| Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1871 - 298 pages
...regard the outside thereof. There you read, or may read, the words and figures PTJNCH.-No. 1559 ! ! ! " Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain,...ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The Heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain." Eooey tooey tooey tooey too !... | |
| Medicine, Eclectic - 1872 - 918 pages
...Man, big doctor " ha ! ha ! " chin chin mercury man " ? And so we conclude that — " Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is [not] peculiar, Which the same I am free to maintain." Polypharmacy. Whilst the editor... | |
| 1870 - 484 pages
...prospectuses of their various periodicals. TEE HEATHEN CHINEE.— Л Specimen of CaKfornian Humour. Which I wish to remark — And my language is plain— That for ways that are dark, Aud for tricks that are vain. The heathen Chinee is peculiar. Which the same I would rise to explain.... | |
| Gynaecological Society of Boston - Gynecology - 1870 - 424 pages
...merely call attention to the facts thus far upon record in the case. " Which is why we remark, And our language is plain, That for ways that are dark, , And for tricks that are vain, Drs. So-and-so are peculiar, Which the same we are free to maintain." ONCE STARTED, it is easy to track... | |
| Law - 1871 - 530 pages
...attorneys in that and other litigations, the judge is particularly severe, and appears to be of opinion that " for ways that are dark, and for tricks that are vain," they are even more peculiar than the "heathen Chinee." After mentioning a number of instances in which... | |
| Joel Parker - 1871 - 68 pages
... COLLEGE LIBRARY THE LAW SCHOOL HARVARD COLLEG-E. BY JOEL PARKER. ' Which I wish to remark — And my language is plain...ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar: Which the same I would rise to explain." — Truthful Jttmes in the Overland... | |
| Scotland - 1871 - 818 pages
...no doubt sprang naturally from some scene which caught the wandering humorist's eye. "THAT HEATHEN "Which I wish to remark. And my language is plain,...ways that are dark. And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is pceuliar, Which the same I would rise to explain. It was August tho third, And quite... | |
| Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 194 pages
...Dow, — and thet's me. THE HEATHEN CHINEE: OR, PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES. BY BRET HARTE. WHICH I wish to remark, — And my language is plain,...ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name ; And I shall... | |
| Mrs. T. Narcisse Doutney - 1871 - 254 pages
...still grace the shelves of a Prince Street pawnbroker! CHAPTER XXXIII. < THE CANAL STREET PAWN SHOP. " Which I wish to remark — And my language is plain...ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. Which the same I would rise to explain." THE account of Dr. Kane's explorations... | |
| Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 pages
...taste for card pastimes is well known in his own country. THA T HEA THEN CHINEE. TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870. to remark — And my language is plain — That for...ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name ; And I shall... | |
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