 I shall exult and triumph to you a little that I have now at last — being turned of forty, to my own honour, to that of learning, and to that of the present age — arrived at the dignity of being a householder. *' About seven months ago, I got a house...  Cassell's old and new Edinburgh - Page 110by James Grant - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...yourself. I shall exult and triumph to you a little that I have now at last, being turned of forty, to my honour, to that of learning, and to that of the present...completed a regular family, consisting of a head, viz. myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps me... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...yourself. I shall exult and triumph to you a little that I have now at last, bemg turned of forty, to my honour, to that of learning, and to that of the present age, arrived at the dignity of bemg a householder. About seven months ao-o I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family,... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Authors, English - 1878 - 392 pages
...economist his own first attempts at domestic economy : — " I have now, at last,— being turned of forty, to my own honour, to that of learning, and...completed a regular family, consisting of a head, viz. myself, and two inferior members — a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1878 - 390 pages
...political economist his own first attempts at domestic economy:—" I have now, at last,—being turned of forty, to my own honour, to that of learning, and to that of the present age,—arrived at the dignity of being a householder. About seven months ago I got a house of my own,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...establishment, in 1753. " I shall exult and triumph to you a little that I have now at last — being turned of forty, to my own honour, to that of learning, and...completed a regular family, consisting of a head, viz., myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...shall exult and triumph to you a little that I have now at last — being turned of forty, to mine own honour, to that of learning, and to that of the...completed a regular family, consisting of a head, viz., myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1886 - 264 pages
...domestic life at this time is obtained in a letter written from Edinburgh to Dr Clephane (January 175.3): "About seven months ago I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family, consisting of a head — viz., myself — and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister 'has since joined me, and... | |
 | 1901 - 892 pages
...moving into his new quarters in 1781, he writes : " I have now at last, being turned of forty . . . arrived at the dignity of being a householder. About...completed a regular family, consisting of a head, viz.: myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophers - 1888 - 486 pages
...at a distance.' Burton's Hume, ii. 436. Note 3. Hume writing to a friend in 1753 says : — ' Abcut seven months ago I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family ; consisting of a head, viz. myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps me... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...Edinburgh home : " I shall exult and triumph to you a little that I have now at last — being turned of forty, to my own honour, to that of learning, and...completed a regular family, consisting of a head, viz. myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps me... | |
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