| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...to read moral, political, and economical lectures on his misery. I am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive...refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in this world. This is the appetite but of a few. It is a luxury; it is a privilege ; it is an indulgence... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...misery. 1 am alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly de«eive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck...refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in this world. This is the appttite but of a few. It is a luxury ; it is a privilege ; it is an indulgence... | |
| Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...to read moral, political, and ceconomica! lectures on his misery. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I, would give a ffck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. This is the appetite but... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world ;" and numberless others scattered through his subsequent writings. It was a matter of the least consideration... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...deponere, et toto animo, atq: omoi cur& $(\oao<t>uv. Sic, inquam, in ammo est: vellem ab initio." " Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this...all that is called fame and honour in the world." Such is the lamentation of Burke. " If this," says Lord Bacon, " be to be a Chancellor, I think if... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...words of Cicero. " Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in tliis hard season I would g_ive a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and ' honour in the world," are the words of Burke. Milton in his tract on Education speaking of young men when they quit the universities.... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world." — ED. > I have no minute of any interview with Johnson tilt Thursday, May 15th, when I find what... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 446 pages
...I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. I greatly deceive myself if in this hard season of life I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world." — ED. 1 Let it be remembered by those who accuse Dr. Johnson of illiberality, that both were Scotchmen.... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...dunghill to read mora?, itical, and economical lectures on his m sery. I am alone. 1 have none to meet enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard ¿on I would give a perk of refuse wheat for nil that is called fame and honour in • world. This... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - Christian life - 1833 - 142 pages
...of privacy and rest. " Indeed, my Lord," wrote Edmund Burke, " I doubt whether, in these hard times, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame in the world." The sole value of fame is use. " Sweet," says the poet — "Sweet were the days when... | |
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