 | James Wilson - 1804 - 514 pages
...Yelverton, " your unexpected choice of me to be your mouth or speaker should proceed, I am utterly ignorant. Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice...comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, his carriage majestical, his nature haughty. But, contrarily, the stature of my body is small, myself not... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 552 pages
...took a wife, by whom I " have had many children : the keeping of us all being a " great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of " us all nothing...but my daily industry. Neither from my " person nor my nature doth this choice arise : For he that " supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely,... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 550 pages
...took a wife, by whom I " have had many children : the keeping of us all being a " great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of " us all nothing...but my daily industry. Neither from my " person nor my nature doth this choice arise : For he that '* supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely,... | |
 | Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 502 pages
...the lower house, delivered a speech as usual, to urge his own incapacity. " Your speaker," said he, " ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken ; his voice great, his carriage majestical ; his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful and heavy: But, contrarily, the stature... | |
 | Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 502 pages
...the lower house, delivered a speech as usual, to urge his own incapacity. " Your speaker," said he, " ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well spoken ; his voice great, his carriage majestical ; his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful and heavy. But, contrarily, the stature... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 440 pages
...I took a wife, by whom I have had many children : the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing...but my daily industry. Neither from my person nor my nature doth this choice arise : for he that supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 404 pages
...annuity. Then. growing toman's estate, and some small practice of the law, 1 took a wife, by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us all being a great...place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken ; his voice great, his courage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 pages
...annuity. Then growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us all being a great...Neither from my person nor nature doth this choice nrise ; for Ire that supplicth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well-spoken... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 746 pages
...remonstrance, has drawn without design a personal, as well as an intellectual portraiture of Edward Coke : ' He that ' supplieth this place ought to be a man big...spoken ; his voice great, his courage majestical, his na' ture haughty, and his purse plentiful and heavy : but contrarily> ' the stature of my body is small,... | |
 | Charles Henry Parry - 1839 - 726 pages
...annuity. Then growing to Man's Estate and some small practice of the Law, I took a wile, by whom I have had many Children, the keeping of us all being a great...stately and well spoken, his voice great, his courage mnjestical, his nature haughty, and his purse plentiful and heavy: but contrarily, the stature of my... | |
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Then growing to Man's Estate and some small practice of the Law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many Children, the keeping of us all being a great impoverishment to my Estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry. 
