 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 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...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... | |
 | Harry Gordon Selfridge - Commerce - 1918 - 662 pages
...Addison, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, protesting against the snobbery of those " who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than...trade or profession that is beneath their quality," points out that " It is the happiness of a trading nation like ours that the younger sons, though incapable... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1919 - 264 pages
...like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality. This humor fills 25 several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It...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... | |
 | English literature - 1920 - 508 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...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... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1922 - 170 pages
...such busy hands, wholly employed in trifles. He was the younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than...fills several parts of Europe with pride and beggary." The Spectator develops this lament, that the younger sons of landed families were debarred from trade,... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1923 - 648 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... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...superintendent of his game. . . . 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." 3 Johnson, too, could allow himself a sneer at the younger brother : " He that thinks must think upon... | |
 | Hugh Walker - Satire, English - 1925 - 348 pages
...position of the younger brother. The character is a satire on the folly of a great family, "who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than...trade or profession that is beneath their quality." And so the unfortunate Will spends his life making or mending hunting and fishing tackle for the neighbours... | |
 | Munsche - History - 1981 - 280 pages
...prejudice may have also affected the lives of younger sons. Addison wrote of great families 'who had rather see their Children starve like Gentlemen, than...Trade or Profession that is beneath their Quality' (The Spectator, I, 331 [No. 108]). 52 William Congreve, The way of the world (1700), III. xv. 53 Christopher... | |
 | John Cannon - History - 1984 - 208 pages
...their children in trade: 'Will Wimble 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 quality.'23 These attitudes died hard. Even professional men were looked at askance. When Lady Jane... | |
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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,... 
