 | 1857 - 610 páginas
...labour hard ; I feel myself coming forward, and I hope to be useful to my country. Could your Lordship honour me now and then with a letter ? I have been...man ever ardent in the pursuit of virtuous fame.' "We shall presently see that the pursuit of virtuous fame was by no means the uppermost object in his... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), William Stanhope Taylor, John Henry Pringle - 1839 - 546 páginas
...vacancy, and the unsatisfactory expedients of idleness." — Life, vol. iii. p. 3. ed. 1835. vourably your Lordship has spoken of me. To correspond with...man ever ardent in the pursuit of virtuous fame. I ever am, my Lord, with the highest admiration, Your Lordship's much obliged humble servant, JAMES BOSWELL.... | |
 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1839 - 570 páginas
...p. 3. ed. 1835. vourably your Lordship has spoken of me. To correspond with a Paoli (') and with^a Chatham is enough to keep a young man ever ardent in the pursuit of virtuous fame. I ever am, my Lord, with the highest admiration, Your Lordship's much obliged humble servant, JAMES BOSWELL.... | |
 | Thomas Robert Keppel - 1842 - 478 páginas
...Corsican general and patriot. Boswell, the biographer, in a letter to Lord Chatham, writes : — " To correspond with a Paoli and with a Chatham, is...man ever ardent in the pursuit of virtuous fame." — Chatham Correspondence, vol. iii, p. 247. " The following is the late Emperor Napoleon's account... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 474 páginas
...labour hard; I feel myself coming forward; and I hope to be useful to my country. Could your Lord' ship find time to honour me now and then with a letter?...exalted correspondence or otherwise. 19.] Edinburgh, VUh June, 1767. My dear Temple, I have this moment received your letter of yesterday. All your letters... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 464 páginas
...hard ; I feel myself coming forward ; and I hope to be useful to my country. Could your Lordshipjind time to honour me now and then with a letter? I have...exalted correspondence or otherwise. 19.] Edinburgh, 1Uh June, 1767. "My dear Temple, I have this moment received your letter of yesterday. All your letters... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 páginas
...judges, I studied law, and am now fairly entered to the bar. I begin to like it. I can labour hard ; I feel myself coming forward, and I hope to be useful...man ever ardent in the pursuit of virtuous fame. I ever am, my lord, with the highest admiration, your lordship's much obliged humble servant, " JAMES... | |
 | 1874 - 382 páginas
...judges, I studied law, and am now fairly entered to the bar. I begin to like it ; I can labour hard, I feel myself coming forward, and I hope to be useful...man ever ardent in the pursuit of virtuous fame." The cool egotism which prompted Boswell, an undistinguished youth, to beg an occasional letter from... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1879 - 216 páginas
...modestly ends by asking, " Could your lordship find time to honour me now and then with a letter f I have been told how favourably your lordship has...man ever ardent in the pursuit of virtuous fame." No other young man of the day, we may be sure, would have dared to make such a proposal to the majestic... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1879 - 224 páginas
...lordship find time to honour me now and then with a letter ? I have been told how favourably yourlordship has spoken of me. To correspond with a Paoli and with...man ever ardent in the pursuit of virtuous fame." No other young man of the day, we may be sure, would have dared to make such a proposal to the majestic... | |
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I can labour hard ; I feel myself coming forward, and I hope to be useful to my country. Could your lordship find time to honour me now and then with a letter ? I have been told how favourably your lordship has spoken of me. To correspond with a Paoli... 
