| George Atherton Aitken - 1889 - 476 páginas
...his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted, that ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.'"1 Steele went so far as to propose that Savage, after being established in some settled scheme... | |
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...in "The Plain Dealer," from which he quotes this strong saying of -the generous Sir Richard Steele, will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, a At the same time it must be acknowledged that Lady Macclesfield and her relations might still wish... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1896 - 328 páginas
...misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted, that J ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right...acquaintance only, but to his confidence, of which he sometimes related an instance too extraordinary to be omitted, as it affords a very just idea of his... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 638 páginas
...in " The Plain Dealer," from which he quotes this strong saving of the generous Sir Richard Steele, that " the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father." At the same time it must be acknowledged, that Lady Macclesfield and her relations might still wish... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...in " The Plain Dealer," from which he quotes this strong saying of the generous Sir Richard Steele, tion; while she ever had, and still retained, a great respect for him. Mrs Knowles at the sam At the same time it must be acknowledged that Lady Macclesfield and her relations might still wish... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 páginas
...before in The Plain Dealer ; from which he quotes this strong saying of the generous Sir Richard Steele, that ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.' At the same time it must be acknowledged, that Lady Macclesfield and her relations might still wish... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 páginas
...related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all opportunities of recommending him, and asserted that ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father2.' Nor was Mr. Savage admitted to his acquaintance only, but 30 to his confidence, of which... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...misfortunes, applauded his "merit, took all the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted, that 5 ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right...acquaintance only, but to his confidence, of which he sometimes related an instance too extraordinary to be omitted, as it affords 10 a very just idea of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...his merit, took all the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted, that 5 ' the inhumanity o±' his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.'1 Nor was Mr. Savage admitted to his acquaintance only, but to his confidence, of which he... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 páginas
...with Steele. Savage was warmly befriended by Steele, who told him, in language very characteristic, that ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father '. Steele even proposed to settle him in life by marrying him to a natural daughter, on whom, when... | |
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