 | English literature - 1870 - 590 pages
...player, a dull poet, a quack doctor, a scraping fiddler, and a lame German dancing-master.' rather nther see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive...several parts of Europe with pride and beggary.' It is unlucky and disagreeable to be obliged to differ so often from a writer whom we respect and admire,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...ordinary qualifications ? Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than...This humour fills several parts of Europe with pride v and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation, like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable... | |
 | Alexander Henry Abercromby Hamilton - Devon (England) - 1878 - 418 pages
...are informed that " Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than...trade or profession that is beneath their quality." No doubt, as Lord Macaulay observes, there was no Joseph Hume in the reign of Anne. Ministers had the... | |
 | Alexander Henry Abercromby Hamilton - Devon (England) - 1878 - 416 pages
...are informed that " Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than...trade or profession that is beneath their quality." No doubt, as Lord Macaulay observes, there was no Joseph Hume in the reign of Anne. Ministers had the... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...ordinary qualifications I Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, wlio had for one moment to exhort the reader never to pay any...human mind and the most to be distrusted ; and yet For luring quails Into n uct. art or profession, may be placed in such a way of life as may perhaps... | |
 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...of the country." This is said to be " the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than...trade or profession that is beneath their quality." To profess compassion after drawing such a picture is to add keenness to the sting. Of his satires... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - England - 1881 - 228 pages
...moralised the Spectator, was filling several parts of Europe with pride and beggary, wherever they would rather see their children starve like gentlemen...than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath them. Addison, indeed, seemed to think that in England this silly and mischievous prejudice was dying... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1882 - 428 pages
...ordinary, qualifications ? Will. Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than...trade or profession that is beneath their quality. Thfs humour fills several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1883 - 224 pages
...ordinary Qualifications? WILL WIMBLE's is t!he Case of many a younger Brother of a great Family, who had rather see their Children starve like Gentlemen, than...Trading Nation, like ours, that the younger Sons, though uncapable of any liberal Art or Profession, may be placed in such a way of Life, as may perhaps enable... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Drawing, British - 1886 - 104 pages
...ordinary qualifications ? D Will Wimble s is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than...trading nation, like ours, that the younger sons, tho' uncapable of any liberal art or profession, may be placed in such a way of life, as may perhaps... | |
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What good to his country or himself might not a trader or merchant have done with such useful though ordinary qualifications ? Will. Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen,... 
