 | Edward Duffield Neill - Maryland - 1867 - 264 pages
...curiosity seeker, but to save his investments if possible. Frankly he tells a friend : " I must either go and settle it in better order, or else give it over,...journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six years by past, if the business be now lost for the want of a little pains and care." Three or four days before... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - 1869 - 44 pages
...follows to his intimate friend Wentworth, the Earl of Stratford : " I must either go and settle it iu better order, or else give it over and lose all the...hitherto, for other men to build their fortunes upon. I had rather be esteemed a fool by some, for the hazard of one month's journey, than to prove myself... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - History - 1871 - 374 pages
...if he might save the money invested in the plantation. Frankly he told a friend, " I must either go and settle it in better order, or else give it over,...journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six years1 by past, if the business be now lost for the want of a little pains and care."* Three or four... | |
 | Maryland Historical Society - Maryland - 1874 - 74 pages
...it over and lose all the charges I have been at hitherto, for other men to build their fortune upon. I had rather be esteemed a fool by some for the hazard of one month's journey, than to prove myself certainly one for six years past, if the business be now lost for the want of a little pains and care."... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - Catholics - 1875 - 94 pages
...Earl of Str afford' s Letters. Dublin, 1740. Vol. I. p. 39.] His words are these: " I must either go and settle it in better order, or else give it over,...charges I have been at hitherto, for other men to build fortunes upon ; and I had rather be esteemed a fool by some, for the hazard of one month's journey,... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - Maryland - 1876 - 198 pages
...New Foundland I mean, which it imports me more than in curiosity, only to see, for I must either go and settle it in better order or else give it over,...journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six years by past, if the business be now lost for the want of a little pains and care.5' l Arriving at Ferryland... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...imports me more than in curiosity to see ; for I must either go and settle it in better order than it is, or else give it over, and lose all the charges I have been at hitherto for other men to build their fortuues upon. And I had rather be esteemed a fool by some for the hazard of one month's journey than... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 598 pages
...Newfoundland I mean, which it imports me more than in curiosity, only to see, for I must either go and settle it in better order or else give it over,...journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six years by past, if the business be now lost for the want of a little pains and care." ' He embarked in a ship... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 594 pages
...Newfoundland I mean, which it imports me more than in curiosity, only to see, for I must either go and settle it in better order or else give it over,...be esteemed a fool by some, for the hazard of one mofcth's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six years by past, if the business be now... | |
| |
I must either go and settle it in a better order than it is, or else give it over, and lose all the charges I have been at hitherto for other men to build their fortunes upon. And I had rather be esteemed a fool by some for the hazard of one month's journey,... 
