 | 1850 - 498 pages
...infinite deal of confused nonsense and nothing. All that's worth preserving is aa two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere...when you have them they are not worth the search. A later mêle, on the creation, by Ke-Kupuohi, an old chief woman of Hawaii, composed after hearing... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1877 - 668 pages
...disentangling them. They are like " the reasons " of Gratiano : " As two grains of wheat hid in a bushel of chaff. You shall seek all day ere you find them,...when you have them, they are not worth the search." Mr. Woodward, in his History of Wales (vol. ip 68). repudiates these misstatements of Geoffrey and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...let him pass for a man. . Port. a. 1 *. 2 His reasons are as two grains of wheat, hid in two measures of chaff, you shall seek all day ere you find them,...when you have them, they are not worth the search.. flays. a. 1 *. I Her sunny locks hang on her temples like a gulden fleece..Bass. a. 1 *. 1 Holy men... | |
 | Baptists - 1840 - 708 pages
...Bassanio said of Gratiano, " He speaks an infinite deal of nothing ; his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have found them, they are not worth the search," the consequence is, the hearers lose the character of hearers,... | |
 | Christian Bouscaren - English language - 1966 - 260 pages
...Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek...when you have them, they are not worth the search. SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice — 1-1-1 14. 123 to call, 'draw or attract so's attention (0) : attirer... | |
 | 1904 - 510 pages
...Gratiano, the ancient proser, who spoke an infinite deal of nothing; and whose reasons were as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; "you shall seek...when you have them they are not worth the search." Truth brings unity, and unity strength and power. Let us all work for the advancement of truth, that... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 816 pages
...speak with ; he says " an infinite deal of nothing ; his reasons are as two grains of wheat hidden in two bushels of chaff ; you shall seek all day ere...when you have them, they are not worth the search." But enough of him. Our old college cronies have left Edinburgh nearly to a man. Waugh still continues... | |
 | Hans-Jürgen Weckermann - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 380 pages
...speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are äs two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek...when you have them they are not worth the search. (MV I. i. 114-118) Diese Bemerkung Bassanios hebt in aller Deutlichkeit den Gebrauch von Sprache um... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Biography & Autobiography - 1954 - 452 pages
...infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : his reasons are as two grains of wheat hidden in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere...when you have them they are not worth the search." Rousing appeals to the affections are excellent, but if they are not backed up by instruction they... | |
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Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. 
