 | Pendleton King - 1884 - 250 sivua
...manifested no little shrewdness in the variety he gave to his demands, illustrating the fact that " for ways that are dark, and for tricks that are vain," the city official is peculiar. " BUFFALO, April 10, 1882. " At your meeting on the 27th ultimo, a communication... | |
 | Pendleton King - 1884 - 254 sivua
...manifested no little shrewdness in the variety he gave to his demands, illustrating the fact that " for ways that are dark, and for tricks that are vain," the city official is peculiar. " BUFFALO, April 10, 1882. " At your meeting on the 27th ultimo, a communication... | |
 | Edwin Joshua Dukes - 1885 - 272 sivua
...has recently adopted Bret Harte's ballad on Ah Sin of San Francisco as his opinion of the Chinaman. 'For ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.' A capital jest is quoted as a sufficient summary of the moral qualities of one-third of the human race.... | |
 | 1885 - 180 sivua
...choke \ ?" THE HEATHEN CHINES. BKBT HAKTE. Which I wish to remark—- And my language is plain— That for ways that are dark. And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. In regard to the same What that name might impiy, But his smile... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1894 - 782 sivua
...thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." August 25, 1839. — Bret Harte. "For ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar." August 27, 1809. — Hannibal Hamlin. He was once Vice President. When ? state was he ? From what August... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1885 - 996 sivua
...when the waters covered the tops of the mountains, but which, upon minute examination, only prove that for ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain the heathen Chinee is not peculiar. These keen-eyed little imps are the trne sons of the men who volunteered in a regiment... | |
 | 1885 - 304 sivua
...HEBREW BEN D House of Lords, January, 1878. WHICH I wish to remark— And my language is plain — That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The Hebrew Ben D— - is peculiar, Which the same I would like to explain. I have mentioned his name, And... | |
 | 1886 - 556 sivua
...taper, What is frequent in tapers, — that's wax. Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, — Which the same I am free to maintain. From "Mr. Sparrowgrass" we borrow the following ditty, funnily... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1886 - 332 sivua
...from Crutftful 3Iame0. (TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870.) WHICH I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name ; And I shall not deny, In regard to the... | |
 | 1886 - 660 sivua
...and entertaining," and which was fervid and eloquent as well, the speaker perpetrated the joke " That for ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain the American Bar is peculiar." The joke seemed to me appropriate, but not original. Your contemporary evidently... | |
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That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain. 
