 | Joseph Addison - 1903 - 256 pages
...starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality. This humor fills several parts of Europe with pride and beggary....happiness of a trading nation, like ours, that the 25 younger sons, though uncapable of any liberal art or profession, may be placed in such a way of... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 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...or profession that is beneath their quality. This humor fills several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation... | |
 | 1902 - 494 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...or profession that is beneath their quality. This humor fills several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 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...Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a tradingnation, like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal art or profession,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1903 - 486 pages
...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...thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their qualityTj This humour fills several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - English language - 1903 - 340 pages
...the form should he "had" to express present time, instead of "have," seems to be an undecided point. children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality." ADDISON, The Spectator, July 4, 1711. 5. " ' I won't dispute it, friend,' answered Josiah, ' but I... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1903 - 238 pages
...that is Beneath their quality.3 This humor4 fills several parts of Europe with pride and Tieggary. It is the happiness of a 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 - American essays - 1904 - 272 pages
...qualifications ? Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother 25 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 - 1903 - 266 pages
...qualifications ! Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother 10 of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than...a trading nation like ours, that the younger sons, 15 though incapable of any liberal art or profession, may be placed in such a way of life as may perhaps... | |
 | Joseph Addison - American essays - 1904 - 286 pages
...qualifications ? Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother 25 of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than...Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a 1 A pipe to imitate the call of a quail. trading nation, like ours, that the younger sons, though uncapable... | |
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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,... 
