 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
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...meers and bounds. " At ninety they lose their teeth and hair ; they have at that age no distinction ff taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get without...reason, they can never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve lo carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end ; and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...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 can never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...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 can never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Castaways - 1871 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the Houyhnhnms they would soon change their opinion." of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get...persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they can never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 pages
...their teeth and hair ; they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever ihey 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 mnuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Imaginary societies - 1879 - 208 pages
...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 - 1879 - 466 pages
...lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatevei they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases...even of those who are their nearest , friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 pages
...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...without increasing or diminishing. In talking, they lorget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1882 - 874 pages
...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 can never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory... | |
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