 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 페이지
...so do I. Charity's a private concern, and what I give is nothing to nobody." — Hood. GOOD ACTIONS. The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action...by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. • — Charles Lamb. RETIRING TO THE COUNTRY. Very few men who have gratified, and are gratifying... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 페이지
...so do I. Charity's a private concern, and what I give is nothing to nobody." — Hood. GOOD ACTIONS. The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action...by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. • — Charles Lamb. RETIRING TO THE COUNTRY. Very few men who have gratified, and are gratifying... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 페이지
...tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. — Colton. PLEASURE, THE HIGHEST. — The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out by accident. — Lamb. PLEASURE, THE MAN OF. — The man of pleasure should more... | |
 | 1863 - 844 페이지
...relish of the turbot; why oysters in death rise up against the contamination of brown sugar, while they are posthumously amorous of vinegar ; why the...by stealth and to have it found out by accident." •• 'T is unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him ; and if you relieve him, it is... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1858 - 586 페이지
...were none of the cleanest, " Martin, if dirt was trumps, what a hand you'd have." GOOD ACTIONS. — The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action...by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. PATINO FOR THINGS. — One cannot bear to pay for articles he used to get for nothing. When Adam laid... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1864 - 552 페이지
...were none of the cleanest, " Martin, if dirt was trumps, what a hand you'd have." GOOD ACTIONS.—The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. PAYING FOR THINGS.—One cannot bear to pay for articles he used to get for nothing. When Adam laid... | |
 | 1853 - 322 페이지
...the end of the year they will be enabled to see their own and (if need be) the Pilgrim's Progress." The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found out by accident. — LAMB. That writer does the best who gives his reader the most knowledge... | |
 | 1871 - 784 페이지
...bonnet and shawl, and went with Susanna, half stupefied, to the Kroner strasse. (To be Continued.) The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. — Lamb. THE MONEY OF THE BIBLE. BY REV. JH DUBBS. Tlie Money of the... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1875 - 416 페이지
...our good lord, the duke, it would have been a pity.' " " The greatest pleasure I know," said Lamb, " is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." IV. STANDARDS. AT a glance, it would appear that as a rule all men think all men imperfect but themselves.... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 페이지
...WHO? ' That's empire, that which I can give away.' Charles Lamb said the greatest pleasure he knew was to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. There is nothing exciting in the following paper, indeed it is prosy enough, so let no one read it... | |
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. 
