| 1846 - 910 pages
...of L.10,000 per annum. He observes, in hi« reply. ' Shall I, who, even in the morning of my days, sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life —...myself up as an object for fortune and for fame?' But the good cause continued to make progress. IU author, in a letter written to the Princess Louisa... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...£ 10,000 per annum. i' He observes, in his reply, " Shall I, who, even in the morning of my days, sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life —...myself up as an object for fortune and for fame!" — Chamber's Journal. Importation of Pure Bred Merino Sheep. — It will be recollected we published... | |
| Medicine - 1852 - 518 pages
...Gloucestershire, and wrote to his friend, as follows: "Shall I, who, even in the morning of my days, sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life, the...hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame? 'Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock shall I add to my little fund of happiness... | |
| William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...prospect set before him by his adviser. " Shall I," he writes, " who, even in the morning of my days, sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life, the...approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune and for lame 1 Admitting it is a certainty that I obtain both, what stock shall I add to my little fund of... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...ho wrote to a friend, "who, even in flhe morning of my life, sought the lowly and sequestered path of life — the valley, and not the mountain — shall...fortune and for fame ? My fortune, with what flows from my profession, is amply sufficient to gratify my wishes. The grand discovery rapidly spread over... | |
| John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 646 pages
...the public eye ; but here, my dear friend, is the rub. Shall I, who, even in the morning of my days, sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life, the...approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune and fame ? Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little store of... | |
| ROBERT HUNT F.R.S, F.S.S. - 1862 - 256 pages
...Mr. Olive, who instituted the first successful case of vaccination in London, he says : " Shall I, who, even in the morning of my life, sought the lowly...hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame ? Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little fund of happiness... | |
| William Walker - 1864 - 198 pages
...Mr. Olive, who instituted the first successful case of vaccination in London, he says : " Shall I, who, even in the morning of my life, sought the lowly...hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame ? Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little fund of happiness... | |
| William King Tweedie - Biography - 1864 - 482 pages
...income of £10,000 per annum. But such predictions could not move him. " Shall I," he writes, ''when my evening is fast approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune or for fame? Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little fund... | |
| James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...respect his motives. ' Shall I,' says he in a letter to a friend, ' who even in the morning of my days sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life, the...hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame? Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little fund of happiness... | |
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