 He seeks for notoriety by pretending to great eccentricity of character and habits, and by the strangeness of his theories and practices ; we, on the contrary, are content with following in the beaten path, and accomplishing the good we can, in the old-fashioned...  Making a Newspaper - Page 16by John La Porte Given - 1907 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Augustus Maverick - Journalism - 1870 - 550 pages
...debasIng and disgusting spectacles of vice and immorality which Fanny Wright, Collins, and others exhibit He seeks for notoriety by pretending to great eccentricity...the other outside of his boot, and with boots all bespattered with mnd, or, possibly, a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other, and glorying in an... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - Journalism - 1870 - 550 pages
...immorality which Fanny Wright, Collins, and others exhibit He seeks for notoriety by pretending to grout eccentricity of character and habits, and by the strangeness...the other outside of his boot, and with boots all bespattered with mnd, or, possibly, a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other, and glorying in an... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - Journalism - 1870 - 558 pages
...following in the beaten path, and accomplishing the good we can, in the old-fashioned way. He lays ciaim to greatness by wandering through the streets with a hat double the size of his bead, a coat after the fashion of Jacob's of old, with one leg of his pantaloons inside and the other... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - History - 1873 - 754 pages
...disgusting spectacles of vice and immorality which Fanny Wright, Collins, and others exhibit. ***** He seeks for notoriety by pretending to great eccentricity...the other outside of his boot, and with boots all bespattered with mud, or, possibly, a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other, and glorying in an... | |
 | Francis Nicoll Zabriskie - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 414 pages
...him of seeking notoriety by his eccentricities and strange theories, hoping to be accounted great " by wandering through the streets with a hat double...the other outside of his boot, and with boots all bespattered with mud, or possibly a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other, and glorying in an unwashed... | |
 | Frank Moss - New York (N.Y.) - 1897 - 516 pages
...disgusting spectacles of vice and immorality which Fanny Wright, Collins, and others exhibit. . . . He seeks for notoriety by pretending to great eccentricity...the other outside of his boot, and with boots all bespattered with mud, or, possibly, a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other, and glorifying in an... | |
 | Frank Moss - New York (N.Y.) - 1897 - 512 pages
...content with following in the beaten path, and accomplishing the good we can, in the old-fash242 ioned way. He lays claim to greatness by wandering through...the other outside of his boot, and with boots all bespattered with mud, or, possibly, a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other, and glorifying in an... | |
 | James Melvin Lee - Journalism - 1917 - 510 pages
...and by the strangeness of his theories and practices; we, on the contrary, are content with following the beaten path, and accomplishing the good we can,...the other outside of his boot, and with boots all bespattered with mud, or possibly, a shoe on one foot and boot on the other, and glorying in an unwashed... | |
 | Leon Nelson Flint - Journalism - 1920 - 312 pages
...the strangeness 160 of his theories and practices ; we, on the contrary, are content with following the beaten path, and accomplishing the good we can,...the other outside of his boot, and with boots all bespattered with mud, or possibly a shoe on one foot and boot on the other, and glorying in an unwashed... | |
 | Ellen Vivian Dollard - 1924 - 320 pages
...his way as other men, along the beaten path. "He, f Greeley) lays claim to greatness by wanr! r ring through the stre-ets with a hat double the size of...head, a coat after the fashion of Jacob's of old, with a leg of his pantaloons inside and the other outside hie boot, and with boots all bespattered with... | |
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