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" I am extremely obliged by your offer of your country house (as for all other kindness) in case that my health should require my removal; but I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility: — there is a stake... "
Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece - Page 140
by Edward Blaquière - 1825 - 342 pages
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The Works of Lord Byron: Including the Suppressed Poems. Also a Sketch of ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 pages
...by your offer of your country-house, as for all other kindness v in case my health should require my removal; but I cannot quit Greece while there is a...utility There is a stake worth millions such as I am aiiJ while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause. While I say this, I am aware of the difficulties,...
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A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest

William Smith - Greece - 1860 - 718 pages
...place, until his health should be restored. In reply to one of these friendly invitations he says: " I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility; there is a stake worth millions such as I am, and, while I can stand at...
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Greece, ancient and modern, lects, Volume 2

Cornelius Conway Felton - 1867 - 582 pages
...place, until his health should be restored. In reply to one of these friendly invitations he says : " I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility ; there is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at...
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Third course: Constitutions and orators of Greece. Fourth course: Modern Greece

Cornelius Conway Felton - Greece - 1867 - 566 pages
...place, until his health should be restored. In reply to one of these friendly invitations he says: "I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility ; there is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at...
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The Modern Review, Volume 2

Religion - 1881 - 902 pages
...invitation to retire to a more salubrious place of abode until his strength should be repaired, he wrote, " I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility ; there is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at...
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The Modern review, a quarterly magazine (ed. by R.A. Armstrong)., Volume 1

Richard Acland Armstrong - 1881 - 902 pages
...invitation to retire to a more salubrious place of abode until his strength should be repaired, he wrote, " I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility ; there is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at...
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volume 2

Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 612 pages
...to do. " I cannot quit Greece," he wrote to a friend, " while there is a chance of my being even of (supposed) utility. There is a stake worth millions...while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause." On the gth of April he was exposed in a heavy storm, and a violent fever came on from which he never...
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volume 2

Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 648 pages
...to do. " I cannot quit Greece," he wrote to a friend, " while there is a chance of my being even of (supposed) utility. There is a stake worth millions...while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause." On the gth of April he was exposed in a heavy storm, and a violent fever came on from which he never...
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Greece, Ancient and Modern: Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute

Cornelius Conway Felton - Greece - 1896 - 1086 pages
...place, until his health should be restored. In reply to one of these friendly invitations he says : " I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility ; there is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at...
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Works, Volume 13

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 654 pages
...he got no farther than Corfu." house (as for all other kindness) in case my health should require my removal; but I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility; there is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at...
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