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" As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth let no dog bark. "
Inaugural lecture written for the opening of the British and foreign institute - Page 27
by James Silk Buckingham - 1843 - 104 pages
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Poems, by C.E.N.

C E. N - 1870 - 136 pages
...moved with concord of sweet sounds, "Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils." Making him say, " I am Sir Oracle, "And when I ope my mouth let no dog bark." The Sculptor raves of beauty. Day and night, Toiling to fix in marble the bright forms Of beauty, seen...
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Wellman's Miscellany, Volumes 1-4

1870
...to him ; behold him as he deigns to look upon the humble man and says, at least in action and mein, "I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my mouth let no dog bark !" Manís a strange creature, but an ass in lion's clothing is still more strange, although we have...
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The golden Americas, Volume 7

John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 pages
...hangman, to cany out at a moment's notice the encouraging arrangement. PUZZLE PAGES. 51.— PUZZLE. T AM Sir Oracle, and when I ope -*- My mouth let no dog bark ; I Bpeak the truth that is the truth, , Throw light on what is dark. You say you cannot see with mo;...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 44

1892 - 554 pages
..."Having the floor, gentlemen of the jury, and a right to it, I go on by first qnoting Shakespeare: ' I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my mouth let no dogburk.' " Mr. Edwards' book having been published two years before Mr. Brady's death, and the work...
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Bench and Bar: A Complete Digest of the Wit, Humor, Asperities, and ...

L. J. Bigelow - 1871 - 550 pages
...quick as a flash the speaker turned upon the intruder, and with appropriate gesticulation exclaimed, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth let no dog bark." That flight of fancy won the jury and carried the case. upon the bench under any circumstances—"...
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The confessions of an old almsgiver; or, Three cheers for the Charity ...

Family welfare association - 1871 - 276 pages
...heaven's vault when such an one as thou uprisest before some adoring auditory of co- worms, saying, ' I am Sir Oracle ; and when I ope my mouth let no Bible bark ! ' Truly, I know no dogmatism like Scientific Dogmatism. He is the very Eiquetti de Mirabeau...
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The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal ..., Volume 11

Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 324 pages
...and ignoring all replies except to those who favour their assumptions, with an air that Bays — " I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my mouth let no dog bark I " This scarcely brings forth fruit. I am always glad to exchange notions with practical working men,...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of ..., Volume 13

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1874 - 510 pages
...and ignoring all replies except to those who favour their assumptions, with an air that says — ' I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my mouth let no dog bark ! ' This scarcely brings forth fruit. I am always glad to exchange notions with practical working men,...
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The Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature. ..., Volume 4

1876 - 740 pages
...of intense conceit — " whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pool, As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth let no dog bark." To his schemes more than perhaps to any other cause the .partition of Poland may be attributed. had...
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The Irish Monthly, Volume 4

1876 - 732 pages
...intense conceit — " whose visages Do cre.im and mantle, like a standing pool, As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth let no dog bark." To his schemes more than perhaps to any other cause the partition of Poland may be attributed. had...
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