 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 504 pages
...annuity/' " Then," said he, "growing-to man's estate and some small practice, of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us...Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice proceed j for he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 510 pages
...annuity." " Then," said he, " growing to man's estate and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us all being a great impoverishment to ray estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither from my person nor... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1853 - 648 pages
...but my bare unnuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither from... | |
 | 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 - 1854 - 568 pages
...much mock modesty disavowed his possession of any qualifications for the chair, ' for,' he said, ' he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big...stately and well spoken, his voice great, his courage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful and heavy.' The ' haughtiness ' alluded to... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1854 - 610 pages
...estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither from my person nor my nature doth this choice arise ; for he that supplieth...place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful... | |
 | 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 - 1854 - 568 pages
...much mock modesty disavowed his possession of any qualifications for the chair, ' for,' he said, ' he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken, his voice greaf, his courage majestical, his nature haughty, and. his purse plentiful and heavy.' Tbe ' haughtiness... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 598 pages
...with much mock modesty disavowed his possession of any qualifications for the chair, "for," he said, " he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken, his voice great, his courage mnjestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful and... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1854 - 566 pages
...my bare aanuity. Then, growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children ; the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry. Neither from... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...much mock modesty disavowed his possession of any qualifications for the chair, " for," he said, " he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken, his voice great, his courage m»j cstical, bis nature haughty, and his purse plentiful... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1854 - 618 pages
...daily industry. Neither from my person nor my nature doth thU choice arise ; for he that supplioth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken, hi? voice groat, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful... | |
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... my estate is nothing correspondent for the maintenance of this dignity ; for my father dying left me a younger brother, and nothing to me but my bare annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom... 
