 ... whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in.  Select British Classics - Page 41803Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 474 pages
...wheu my mother was gone with child of me about three months, she dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge. Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world, and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - English essays - 1892 - 168 pages
...six hundred years. There runs a story in the family, that my mother dreamt that she had brought forth a judge. Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world seemed... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - English essays - 1892 - 164 pages
...six hundred years. There runs a story in the family, that my mother dreamt that she had brought forth a judge. Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world seemed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 364 pages
...dreamed that her child was destined to be a judge : whether this might proceed from a law-suit which 1 was then depending in the family, or my father's being...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world seemed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 256 pages
...when my mother was gone with child of me about three months, she dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge. Whether this might proceed from a law-suit...peace, I cannot determine ; for I am not so vain as to 10 think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, Sir Richard Steele - 1892 - 160 pages
...six hundred years. There runs a story in the family, that my mother dreamt that she had brought forth a judge. Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine ; for 1 am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - English essays - 1892 - 160 pages
...dreamt that she had brought forth a judge. Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit which was therl depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine ; for 1 am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1893 - 204 pages
...runs a story in the family, that [before I was born] my mother dreamt that she was [to bring forth] a judge; whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world seemed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...dreamed that her child was destined to be a judge : whether this might proceed from a law-suit which 1 was then depending in the family, or my father's being...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world seemed... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1894 - 462 pages
...she had brought forth a judge : Whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was thendependingin the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I canuot determine ; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at... | |
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