 | George Seton - 1870 - 276 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to the Earl of Chesterfield. 79 to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainquenr du vainqueur dc la ferre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainquatrduvainqueurde la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainifueur du vainqueur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service, Lucile B. Spurlock, Luthera Burton Dawson - 1961 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1961 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, rny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Calvin Darlington Linton - 1962 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
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I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. 
