 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 דפים
...says of 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.... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 896 דפים
...action of his life. "All my endeavors from a boy to distinguish myself," he writes to Bolingbroke, " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 דפים
...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.... | |
 | 1865 - 838 דפים
...distinguish myself, were only for the want of a great title, 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."* His was a great, an immense, but an evil genius : " Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 דפים
...power and notoriety; or, as he says himself, " 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 488 דפים
...power and notoriety ; or, as he says himself, " All my endeavours, from a boy, to distinguish myself, were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I migJit be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts — whether right or wrong, it... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 דפים
...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 Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 דפים
...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 Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 דפים
...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 Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 דפים
...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.... | |
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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,... 
