 What I did, I can assure you was not for life, but ease ; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of going to a good place, and an absolute certainty of leaving a very...  A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 56edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...not for life, but ease; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of...my friends as any man; but the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities that are to befal my country. However,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...for life, but ease ; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of...my friends as any man ; but the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities that are to befall my country. However,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...not for life, but ease ; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbor, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of...my friends as any man; but the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities that are to befall my country. However,... | |
 | 1887 - 454 pages
...relates, " to live an idle country life. I am in the case of a man that was almost in harbour and then blown back to sea, who has a reasonable hope of going...very bad one. Not that I have any particular disgust of the world ; for I have as great comfort in my own family, and from the kindness of my friends, as... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...not for life, but ease ; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbor, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of going to a good place, aud an absolute certainty of leaving a very bad one. Not that I have any particular disgust at the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...not for life, but ease; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbor, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of...my friends as any man; but the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities that are to befall my country. However,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 498 pages
...not for life, but ease ; for I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbor, and then blown back to sea — who has a reasonable hope of...my friends as any man ; but the world, in the main, displeases me, and I have too true a presentiment of calamities that are to befall my country. However,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1892 - 426 pages
...of dying all over again. " I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbor and then blown back to sea ; who has a reasonable hope of going...and an absolute certainty of leaving a very bad one. . . However, I enjoy the comforts of life with my usual cheerfulness." Swift, in his strong way, answered... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1893 - 630 pages
...not for life but ease. For I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea ; who has a reasonable hope of going...have as great comfort in my own family, and from the kindess of my friends, as any man, but the world, in the main, disleases me ; and I have too true a... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...not for life but ease. For I am at present in the case of a man that was almost in harbour, and then blown back to sea ; who has a reasonable hope of going...friends, as any man ; but the world, in the main, displeases me ; and I have too true a presentiment of calamities that are likely to befall my country.... | |
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