 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be tised like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great matter.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke: — "All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might he used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great matter.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pagina’s
...as much himself in one of his letterf to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great matter.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1856 - 494 pagina’s
...were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who hace an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter." This was indeed but a low and creeping ambition ; and the fruit — at least as far as any augmentation... | |
 | 1858 - 594 pagina’s
...all power and all authority.' ' All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself,' said Swift, ' were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts/ The determination of Johnson to make mind... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 pagina’s
...disregarded all power and all authority.' 'All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself,' said Swift, ' were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts/ The determination of Johnson to make mind... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pagina’s
...says as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : ' All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great matter.... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pagina’s
...says as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : ' All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great matter.... | |
 | 1861 - 686 pagina’s
...Lord Bolingbroke, his inducement to become literary ; "• All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, is no great matter.... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1862 - 878 pagina’s
...action of his life. " All my endeavors from a boy to distinguish myself," he writes to Bolinpbroke, " were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great... | |
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I will further tell you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a Lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is no great matter,... 
