 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth, or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them, appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them, appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...youth and middle-age, and even that is very imperfect ; and for the truth or particulars of any feet, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them, appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage and entirely lose their memories;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 pages
...youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect ; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them, appear disadvantages of old age, is here finely exposed ; yet the desire... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...youth and middle-age, and even that is very imperfect; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories... | |
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They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon their best recollections.... 
