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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,... "
The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight ... - Pagina 92
door Jonathan Swift - 1761
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Roundabout Papers, to which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pagina’s
...as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavors to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord b\' those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great matter....
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Complete Works, Volume 4

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pagina’s
...as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavors 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....
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Self-consciousness of Noted Persons

1887 - 216 pagina’s
...1745. IN one of his letters to Bolingbroke, Swift writes: " All my endeavors 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....
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The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges ; The ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pagina’s
...as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavors 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....
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Thackeray's Works, Volume 8

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 pagina’s
...as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my endeavors 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....
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Swift: The Mystery of His Life and Love

James Hay - 1891 - 392 pagina’s
...there was a serious meaning : " I will 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 is no great matter...
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Dean Swift and His Writings

Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 pagina’s
...himself of his opportunity so eagerly as Swift. "All my endeavours to distinguish myself," he has said, " 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 moment he had been waiting for ever...
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The Andover Review, Volume 19

1893 - 804 pagina’s
...of his ruling motive, and one which he at no time belied in conduct. " All my endeavors from a boy were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who had an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great matter."...
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Charles Lamb

Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pagina’s
...quoted the anecdote of the lost fish, he says 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 is no great matter...
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The Age of Pope

John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pagina’s
...letter to Pope he makes the following confession : ' All my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune that I might be treated like a lord .... whether right or wrong it is no great matter ; and so the reputation of great...
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