 | John Forster - 1876 - 498 pages
...its gravity of meaning : " I will tell you that all my endeavors, 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... | |
 | John Forster - 1876 - 504 pages
...ite gravity of meaning : " I will tell yon that all my endeavors, 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... | |
 | 1876 - 576 pages
...its gravity of 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 need like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrorg ifi no... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...resentment. In a letter to Bolingbroke, Swift says : 'All my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might he used like a.lprd by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it is... | |
 | John Wilson (reviewer.) - 1881 - 482 pages
...without its gravity of 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 230 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pages
...says as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke : — " All my efforts 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 500 pages
...of spirits, and I will farther 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1884 - 498 pages
...of spirits, and I will farther 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... | |
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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,... 
