 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 - 1898 - 828 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 580 pages
...civil or criminal — not even for the decision of metes and bounds. At ninety they lose their teeth and hair. They have at that age no distinction of...appellation of things and the names of persons, even those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 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...Appetite. The Diseases they were subject to still continuing without encreasing or diminishing. In talking they forgot the common Appellation of things,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1899 - 346 pages
...assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others. ... At ninety, they lose their teeth and hair ; they have at that age no distinction of...nearest friends and relatives. For the same reason they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 414 pages
...civil or criminal, not even for 35 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 for40 get the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest... | |
 | Juvenal - 1900 - 542 pages
...repulsive picture of the Struldbrugs (Gulliver's Travels Part п. с. x): 'at ninety they lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can 'et, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still intinue, without increasing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) - 1901 - 410 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...diminishing. In talking, they forget the common appellation pf things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...the decision of meers and bounds. "At ninety they lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age m> distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they...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 Peacock - English literature - 1903 - 408 pages
...either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of moors 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 - 1905 - 428 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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