| William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1803 - 498 pages
...to go from London to their conntry seats; and would sometimes tell them. " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which show like nothing ;...country villages, you are like ships in a river, which shew like great things." The ordinary revenue in this reign, did not amount to half a million, nor... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 354 pages
...and sometimes " would say to them, Gentlemen, at London you are " like ships in the sea, which shew like nothing ; " but in your country- villages, you...ships in " a river, which look like great things." I do not mean, however, to say, that a great man should live always in the country. The duties of his... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1804 - 480 pages
...to go from London to their country seats ; and would sometimes tell them, " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country villages, you arc like ships in a river, which show like great things." The ordinary revenue in this reign did not... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 504 pages
...London to their " country seats. And sometimes he would say thus to " them: Gentlemen, at London, you are like ships in a " sea, which show like nothing, but in your country vil" lages you are like ships in a river, which look like great " things."' HE was not content with... | |
| Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 502 pages
...the king, who was wont to tell them, " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which shew like nothing ; but in your country villages, you are...like ships in a river, which look like great things. Interest, during this reign, was at ten per cent, till 1 624, when it was reduced to eight ; an indication... | |
| Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 502 pages
...the king, who was wont to tell them, " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which shew like nothing ; but in your country villages, you are...like ships in a river, which look like great things. Interest, during this reign, was at ten per cent, till 1 624, when it was reduced to eight ; an indication... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...thus to them : " Gentlemen, at Lon" don you are like ships at sea, which shew like nothing ; but iu " your country villages you are like ships in a river, which " look like great things." See LOUD BACON'S APOTHEGMS, No. J272. haps to find together, so it is good to know them, and think... | |
| David Hume - 1812 - 604 pages
...London to their country seats. And sometimes he would say thus " to them : Gentlemen, at London, you arc like ships ** in a sea, which show like nothing ; but in your coun" try villages you are like ships in a river, which look " like great things'." HE was not content... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...And sometimes he would say thus to them ; Gentlemen, at London, you are like ships at se^ which shew like -nothing ; but in your country villages, you...like ships in a river, which look like great things. 273. Soon after j;he death of a great officer, who was judged no advancer of the king's matters ; the... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1817 - 276 pages
...their own advantage. The King would often say to them, "Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in the sea., which show like nothing; but in your country...like ships in a river, which look like great things." London was at this time almost entirely built of wood,, and a very ugly city. The Earl of Arundel first... | |
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