 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 446 sider
...requested he would discourse of their philosophy. He reopened the volume, and read with becoming gravity, ' The most learned men are decidedly of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is the stomach.'* I seized the volume in despair, and rushed from the apartment." A festival much honoured... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 sider
...requested he would discourse of their philosophy. He re-opened the volume, and read with becoming gravity, 'The most learned men are decidedly of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is the stomach.' I seized the volume in despair, and rushed from the apartment." A festival much honoured... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1841 - 712 sider
...established notions, hut requested him to continue. He reopened the volume, and read with becoming gravity, 'The most learned men are decidedly of opinion, that...seat of the human understanding is in the belly.' 'Better say it is in the feet, and done with it,' exclaimed I, for this so shocked all my principles... | |
 | 1842 - 654 sider
...established notions, but requested him to continue. He reopened the volume, and read with becoming gravity, "The most learned men are decidedly of opinion, that...seat of the human understanding is in the belly." " Better say it is in the feet, and done with it," exclaimed I, for this so shorked all my principles... | |
 | Duncan MacPherson - 1842 - 416 sider
...and to crown the distinction between our own acknowledged axioms and theirs, the most learned men are of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is .in the belly. The motto selected for the title-page of this volume describes most correctly, in very few words, the... | |
 | 590 sider
...and to crown the distinction between our own acknowledged axioms and theirs, the most learned men are of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is in the belly." — p. 4. After narrating the landing of the troops at Chusan in July, 1840, and the interview between... | |
 | 1842 - 592 sider
...and, to crown the distinction between our own acknowledged axioms and theirs, the most learned men are of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is in the belly!* Now, in the first place, the larger half of these alleged peculiarities are not peculiarities at all.... | |
 | 1842 - 590 sider
...and, to crown the distinction between our own acknowledged axioms and theirs, the most learned men arc of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is in the belly ! , Now, in the first place, the larger half of- these alleged peculiarities are not peculiarities... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 590 sider
...and, to crown the distinction between our own acknowledged axioms and theirs, the most learned men are of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is in the belly ! • Now, in the first place, the larger half of these alleged peculiarities are not peculiarities... | |
 | Duncan McPherson - 1843 - 312 sider
...and to crown the distinction between our own acknowledged axioms and theirs, the most learned men are of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is in the belly. The motto selected for the title-page of this volume describes most correctly, in very few words, the... | |
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Hardly prepared for this blow to my established notions, I requested he would discourse of their philosophy. He reopened the volume, and read with becoming gravity, ' The most learned men are decidedly of opinion that the seat of the human understanding... 
