 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1853 - 508 pages
...his magnificent ends. ' The Bar: pooh! law and bad jokes till we are forty; and then, with the moat brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet....as an advocate, I must be a great lawyer ; and, to bs a great lawyer, I must give up my chance of being a great man. The Services in war time are fit... | |
 | Cornelius Brown - 1881 - 440 pages
...his abilities which he ardently desired. In 'Vivian Gray' he thus soliloquises : ' The bar ; pish ! law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with...lawyer I must give up my chance of being a great man.' Accordingly, he quitted the bar in favour of literature and politics, and in so doing he acted wisely... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 792 pages
...Communing with himself as to how " he could obtain his magnificent ends/' Vivian Grey thus speaks: "The Bar, pooh! law and bad jokes till we are forty,...I must be a great lawyer, and to be a great lawyer 1 must give up my chance of being a great man. The Services in 44 war time are fit only for desperadoes... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1890 - 290 pages
...momentous subject are not likely to have been much caricatured in the meditations of Vivian Grey. ' The Bar ! — pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are...lawyer, and to be a great lawyer I must give up my chances of being a great man. The " services " in war time are fit only for desperadoes (and that truly... | |
 | Humanities - 1911 - 400 pages
...adventurers in the country they ruled! tQuoted in Mr. Sichel's " Disraeli " from Grant Duff's Diaries. we are forty; and then with the most brilliant success,...lawyer, I must give up my chance of being a great man." But nothing debarred a statesman from being a great man, and nothing stood between Disraeli's imagination... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English periodicals - 1905 - 546 pages
...! Pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with the most brilliant success, the chance of gout and a coronet. Besides to succeed as an advocate,...lawyer, I must give up my chance of being a great man." And thus, like many young lawyers, he turned his thoughts and devoted his abundant leisure to literature.... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1905 - 346 pages
...then with the most brilliant success the prospect of gout and a coronet," said Benjamin Disraeli. " Besides, to succeed as an advocate I must be a great...lawyer, and to be a great lawyer I must give up my chances of being a great man." So Thackeray abandoned the law and went to study art at Paris. He had... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1907 - 794 pages
...pooli ! Law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with the most brilliant success, the prospects of gout and a coronet. Besides, to succeed as an advocate...must be a great lawyer ; and to be a great lawyer I ruust give up my chances of being a great man.' To be a great man he was determined ; and that speedily.... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1919 - 512 pages
...magnificent ends. ' The Bar : pooh ! law and bad jokes till we are forty ; and then, with the moat brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet....a great lawyer ; and, to be a great lawyer, I must giro up my chance of being a great man. The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes (and... | |
 | Coleman Phillipson - Capital punishment - 1923 - 376 pages
...advocate and the profoundest lawyer of his age. Disraeli makes a character in one of his novels say: "To be a great lawyer I must give up my chance of being a great man." If this remark is true generally, Romilly certainly proved a signal exception. He became a great lawyer,... | |
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The Bar : pooh ! law and bad jokes till we are forty ; and then, with the most brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. Besides, to succeed as an advocate, I must be a great lawyer ; and, to be a great lawyer, I must give up my chance of... 
