...here is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.”... ...rs, he threw one before the old man, who, looking at it, read ‘Counterfeit Detector.’ “Very good thing,” said the boy, “I give it to all my cus- tomer... ...id the boy, “look a lie and find the truth; don’t care about a Counterfeit Detector, do ye? or is the wind East, d’ye think?” “Child,” said the old ma... ...oubt they are all right; but just to pass time, I’ll compare them with the Detector here. Blessed boy to 245 Melville make me such a present. Public ... ...le make me such a present. Public benefactor, that little boy!” Laying the Detector square before him on the table, he then, with something of the air... ...e collar a brace of culprits to the bar, placed the two bills opposite the Detector, upon which, the examination began, lasting some time, prosecuted ...

... does not descend to his posterity. And these people thought it a prodigious defect of policy among us, when I told them that our laws were enforced o... ... appear so beautiful to us, only because they are of our own size, and their defects not to be seen but through a magnifying glass; where we find by e... ...while she was carrying me to court. The queen, giving great allowance for my defective ness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and g... ...ral other questions to me, and still received rational answers: no otherwise defective than by a foreign accent, and an imperfect knowledge in the lan... ..., be very much lessened in the opinion of an English reader: but I take this defect among them to have risen from their ignorance, by not having hithe... ...s; against whom the tribes of Answerers, Considerers, Observers, Reflectors, Detectors, Remarkers, will never be able to find matter forexercising the...

...dvantages of France: O heavens! that this treason were not, or not I the detector! CORNWALL: Go with me to the duchess. EDMUND: If the matter of ... ...tumbled when I saw: full oft ’tis seen, Our means secure us, and our mere defects Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar, The food of thy abused fa... ...tumbled when I saw: full oft ’tis seen, Our means secure us, and our mere defects Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar, The food of thy abused fa...

...r- come by his dislike of all kinds of recognised labour—a tem- peramental defect which he shared with a large proportion of revolutionary reformers o... ...ons was strictly in character with the Assistant Commissioner’s ability as detector. His memory evoked a certain old fat and wealthy native chief in t... ...lighted, above the parlour table, one of the two gas-burners, which, being defective, first whistled as if astonished, and then went on purring com- f...

..., one inscribed ‘When, my EYE was restored to its use,’ which ascertains a defect that many of his friends knew he had, though I never per- ceived it.... ...d; and indeed I must observe, that in no other respect could I discern any defect in his vision; on the contrary, the force of his atten- tion and per... ...round him; no very easy operation, as his size was remark- ably large. His defective sight, indeed, prevented him from enjoying the common sports; and... ... nest of singing birds.’ He was not, however, blind to what he thought the defects of his own College; and I have, from the information of Dr. Taylor,... ...the following causes: first, the imperfection of his organs, which were so defective that he was not sus- ceptible of the fine impressions which theat... ...s assisted by the Reverend Dr. Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, the great detector of im- postures; who informs me, that after the gentle- men who we...