At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue without increasing or diminishing. In talking... Miscellanies... - Page 84by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jonathan Swift - 1903 - 440 pages
...not even for the decision of meers and bounds. At ninety they lose their teeth and hair ; they hare at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink...persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 288 pages
...they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal. At ninety they lose their teeth and hair ; they have at that age no distinction of...The diseases they were subject to still continue. In talking they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who... | |
| Juvenal - 1914 - 644 pages
...repulsive picture of the Struldbrugs (Gulliver's Travels Part ii. c. x): 'at ninety they lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age no distinction of...or diminishing. In talking they forget the common appellations of things and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.'... | |
| Jonathan Swift - Fantasy fiction, English - 1919 - 348 pages
...teeth and hair, they have at that J age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they I can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases...persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 pages
...either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds. At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of...persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 pages
...either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds. At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of...persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall - 1922 - 572 pages
...that age no distinction of taste but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite." In talking, they forget the common appellation of...reason they can never amuse themselves with reading because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end. The... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall - Medical - 1922 - 594 pages
...they allowed to be witnesses in any cause either civil or criminal." "At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of...whatever they can get, without relish or appetite." In talking, they forget the common appellation of things and the names of persons, even of those who... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds. At ninety they lose their teeth , relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds. At ninety they lose their teeth ut fall unshaken when they mellow be. Most necessary...is debt. What to ourselves in passion we propose, stil! continue without increasing or diminishing. In talking they forget the common appellation of... | |
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