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" You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question. "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 176
1853
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pages
...passed him without speaking. He found the Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason, he said, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...his wretchedness, you must never ask a question."* Swift secluded himself from society * It la proper to state, that Delany's inference from this cir....
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D. D

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 pages
...passed him without speaking. He found the Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason, he said, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...his wretchedness, you must never ask a question."* Swift secluded himself from society * It is proper to state, that Delany's inference from this cir....
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 74

1853 - 816 pages
...passed him without speaking. He found the Archbishop iu tears ; and upon asking the reason, he said, ' You have just met the most unhappy man on earth, but...of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.' " Sir Walter Scott does not admit this story in the Gentleman's Magazine, but we doubt if the reason...
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Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume 1

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1826 - 334 pages
...mystery and inconsistency. He found the Archbishop in tears, anrl, upon asking the reason, he said, « You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but,...of his wretchedness, you must never ask a question. » ' Swift secluded himself from 1 It is proper to state, that Delany's inference from this circumstance...
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The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 2

sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 pages
...passed him without speaking. He found the Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason, he said, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...his wretchedness, you must never ask a question."* Swift secluded himself Would he deny his marriage with a woman of good fortune at that time, when he...
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Life of Jonathan Swift

Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pages
...that is pretended to be ing. He found the Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason, he said, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...his wretchedness, you must never ask a question."* Swift secludthe time of the marriage ? Would he have suffered his wife to make a will, signed Esther...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 2

Walter Scott - 1834 - 556 pages
...passed him without speaking. He found the Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason, he said, " You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...subject of his wretchedness, you must never ask a question."1 Swift secluded himself from society for mately, and who were her executors, would have...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 15

1840 - 824 pages
...passed him without speaking. He found tbe Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason he said, ' You have just met the most unhappy man on earth ;...the subject of his wretchedness, you must never ask n question.' Swift secluded himself from society for lomedayt. When he reappeared, hi» intercourse...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 76

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...Archbishop in tears, and upon asking the reason, he replied, ' You have just met the most unhappy man upon earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness, you must never ask a question !' His doggerel verses of this period, called poems by courtesy, deserve neither to be analysed nor...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1842 - 740 pages
...Archbishop in teal's, and upon asking the reason, he replied, ' You have just met the most unhappy man upon earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness, you must never ask a question !' His doggerel verses of this period, called poems by courtesy, deserve neither to be analysed nor...
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