 I went over to France with a view of prosecuting my studies in a country retreat ; and I there laid that plan of life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain...  The British Critic: A New Review - Page 1401810Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...philosophy, and consecrated himself to their pursuit : ' 1 resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature.' His supreme motive was... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pages
...philosophy, and consecrated himself to their pursuit: 'I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature.' His supreme motive was... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pages
...which I 'have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid •frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvement of my talents in literature." * Hume passed through Paris... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1886 - 264 pages
...life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible/except the improvement of my talents in literature." It was in the seminary... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 pages
...life, which I have steadily and successfullypursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature. During my retreat in France,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pages
...life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvement of my talents in literature." 1 Hume passed through Paris... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
..." which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature." His earlier publications... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 pages
...life which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature.' After three years spent... | |
 | Henry Laurie - 1902 - 360 pages
...adherence to the quest of his life. " I resolved," he says, " to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature." Crossing over to France,... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...life, which I have steadily and successfully pursued. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible, except the improvement of my talents in literature. My family, however, was... | |
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