 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 264 pages
...another station of life. What good to his country or himself might not a trader or a merchant have done with such useful though ordinary 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 thrive in a trade... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1900 - 282 pages
...merchant have done with such useful though ordinary qualifications ? SIH ROGER DE COVERLEY [No. 108. Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother...Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness 100 of a trading nation, like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal art or profession,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1900 - 286 pages
...himself might not a trader or merchant have done with such useful though ordinary qualifications ? 95 Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother...Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness 100 of a trading nation, like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal art or profession,... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 pages
...another station of life. What good to his country or himself might not a trader or a merchant have done with such useful though ordinary qualifications! Will...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 pages
...Peter the Hermit: "He was born of a gentleman's family (for we must now adopt a modern idiom)". • • "Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather Bee their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their... | |
 | Charles Augustus Whittuck - 1901 - 292 pages
...been commonly reputed." Similarly, the character of Will Wimble is introduced as a specimen case, " the case of many a younger brother of a great family...see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive on a profession or trade beneath their quality." Again, the bitterness and bigotry of party spirit... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pages
...another station of life. What good to his country or himself might not a trader or a merchant have done with such useful though ordinary qualifications! Will...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
...another station of life. What good to his country or himself might not a trader or merchant have done with such useful though ordinary qualifications? Will...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1902 - 264 pages
...such useful though ordinary qualifications? Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother 20 of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than tjbriye in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality. This humor fills several parts of Europe... | |
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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. 
