 He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting ; he was more properly dull than lazy, and would have been so well contented to have remained in his little town of Hanover, that if the ambition of those about him had...  Characteristics of Eminent Men - Page 731872 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 556 pages
...money, but loved to keep his own, without being rapacious of other men's. He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting...honesty of his temper, joined with the narrow notions ^>fa low education, made him look upon his acceptance of the crown as an act of usurpation, which was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 606 pages
...money, but loved to keep his own, without being rapacious, of other men's. He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting...of Hanover, that if the ambition of those about him bad not been greater than his own, we should never have seen him in England ; and the natural honesty... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 410 pages
...money, but loved to keep his own, without being rapacious of other men's. He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying- schemes for getting...well contented to have remained in his little town of Hanover,.that if the ambition of those about him had not been greater than his own, we should never... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1837 - 430 pages
...laying schemes for getting ; he was more properly dull than lazy, and would have been so well contended to have remained in his little town of Hanover, that if the ambition of those about hi m had not been greater than his own, we should never have seen him in England; and the natural honesty... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...money, but he loved to keep his own, without being rapacious of other men's. He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting....than lazy ; and would have been so well contented to remain in his little town of Hanover that if the ambition of those about him had not been greater than... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 548 pages
...money, but he loved to keep his own, without being rapacious of other men's. He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting....than lazy ; and would have been so well contented to remain in his little town of Hanover that if the ambition of those about him had not been greater than... | |
 | Emily Morse] [Symonds - 1907 - 630 pages
...money, but loved to keep his own, without being rapacious of other men's. He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting;...remained in his little town of Hanover, that if the ambitions of those about him had not been greater than his own, we should never have seen him in England;... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 640 pages
...money, but loved to keep his own, without being rapacious of other men's. He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting...remained in his little town of Hanover, that if the ambitions of those about him had not been greater than his own, we should never have seen him in England... | |
 | Devoney Looser - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 298 pages
...from Ambition; he lov'd Money, but lov'd to keep his own without being rapacious of other men's. ... He was more properly Dull than Lazy, and would have been so well contented to have remain'd in his little Town of Hanover that if the Ambition of those about him had not been greater... | |
 | Carolly Erickson - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 368 pages
...undefeated to the end. GEORGE I (1714-1727) "IN PRIVATE LIFE, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED AN HONEST BLOCKHEAD HE WAS MORE PROPERLY DULL THAN LAZY, AND WOULD HAVE...HIS OWN, WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE SEEN HIM IN ENGLAND." —LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Trumpeters blared a fanfare and drums beat out a solemn tattoo as the... | |
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