 When first informed of the existence of the "law of interest," the world must have felt much as did Moliere's M. Jourdain, who was surprised to learn from his professors of languages that he "had been talking prose all his life without knowing it.  The North American Review - Strana 5551866Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1829 - 1008 str.
...theories, and in all probability unconsciously, like the bourgeois gentilhomme of Moliere, who found that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it, they had given vent to theories without being aware that they were doing so. The right hon, gentleman... | |
 | 1841 - 730 str.
...all."— (pp. 4, 5.) Since the case of the worthy gentleman, who, at fifty years of age, discovered that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it, — we have met with nothing so naive, nothing so gravely ludicrous, as this. " We can no longer blind... | |
 | 1842 - 434 str.
...all its perfection. I have read of a man who was astonished, when he heard the word prose explained, to find, that he had been talking prose all his life, without knowing it : and your case would be a good deal like the case of that poor man, if you were to be put suddenly... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1884 - 548 str.
...finding that sounds he could frame with his mouth bore names so fine as 'vowels' and 'consonants,' and that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it ; and it is very far-reaching. The common people like to dress the commonest thoughts in the finery... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 720 str.
...taking walks, they are as delighted as was M. Jourdain in the "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" when he found out that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. After having made a beginning in this way, I was at a loss to know what geographical text-book to use... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 726 str.
...taking walks, they are as delighted as was M. Jourdain in the "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" when he found out that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. ¡ion. In most of the older manuals I failed to find a proper arrangement, either in general or in... | |
 | 1860 - 718 str.
...taking walks, they are as delighted as was M. Jourdain iu the "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" when he found out that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. tion. In most of the older manuals I failed to find a proper arrangement, either in general or in the... | |
 | 1866 - 670 str.
...BUSHNELL. New York: Scribner. 1866 IF any of our readers would know exactly what is meant by tl»c infatuation, sometimes charged upon men, of "putting...milder idea of " identification." The good Doctor is at infiuite pains to coerce and cajole his reluctant patient into making a wide mouth of it, and swallowing... | |
 | 1866 - 592 str.
...shows us how it is spoken in common conversation. Like Moliere's hero, who was astonished to lc:im that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it, so at every dinner party much blank verse is pronounced without the slightest intention of talking... | |
 | 1871 - 830 str.
...could have read Homer, he would have been as much surprised to find himself a hero as Monsieur Jourdain was surprised to find that he had been talking prose all his life without knowing it. Shakespeare was in his grave when Garrick was in his glory, The great poet never witnessed that wondrous... | |
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