 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 quality.  The Quarterly Review - Page 391870Full view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 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...several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 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...several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of * any liberal... | |
 | 1803 - 472 pages
...ordinary qualifications ! WHl 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 beneatli their quality. This humour fills several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...ordinary qualifications ? Will Wimble's is the case of many a ypunger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath thi'ir quality. This humour fills several parts of Europe with pride and beg-* gary. It is the happiness... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 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...quality. This humour fills several parts of Europe will) pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation like ours, that the younger spns,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 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...several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation, like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 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...several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It i . the happiness of a trading nation, like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 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...several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation jike ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal... | |
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 pages
...itself; it gives fury to the passions, and force to those objects which excite them. Many parents had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than...several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 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...several parts of Europe with prid.e and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal... | |
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