| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pagina’s
...S. Sept. 1710. a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the antechamber [at Court] to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and...Lord Treasurer, that he should obtain a salary of 200/. per annum as member of the English Church at Rotterdam. He stopped F. Gwynne, Esq., going in... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1889 - 474 pagina’s
...in his favour. Kennett, in a diary of 1713 (Swipr, Works, ed. Scott, xvi. 99), writes of Swift : ' He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormonde, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 pagina’s
...coffeehouse and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the ante-chamber [at Court] to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and...Lord Treasurer, that he should obtain a salary of £200 per annum as member of the English church at Rotterdam. He stopped F. Gwynne, Esq., going in... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 pagina’s
...coffeehouse and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the ante-chamber [at Court] to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and...Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormoud, to get a place for a clergyman. He was promising Mr. Thorold to undertake with my Lord Treasurer,... | |
| James Hay - 1891 - 390 pagina’s
...before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as Master of Requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the Garrison of Hull, for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood,... | |
| James Hay - 1891 - 390 pagina’s
...was promising Mr. Thorald to undertake with my Lord Treasurer that he should obtain a salary of £200 per annum, as member of the English Church at Rotterdam. He stopped F. Gwyne, Esq., going into the Queen with the red bag, and told him aloud he had something to say to him... | |
| 1893 - 974 pagina’s
...before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as minister of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighborhood,... | |
| Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 pagina’s
...before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as master of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1893 - 280 pagina’s
...promising Mr. Thorold to undertake, with my Lord Treasurer, that he should obtain a salary of ,£200 per annum as member of the English Church at Rotterdam. He stopped F. Gwynne, Esquire, going into the Queen with the red bag, and told him aloud he had something to say to him from... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1894 - 300 pagina’s
...before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as minister of requests. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother the Duke of Ormond to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighborhood,... | |
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