 found me out this gentleman, who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity...  The British Essayists - Page 196edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...parish, and because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than...taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...a good annuity* for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than 75 perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty...taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or... | |
 | 1886 - 848 pages
...him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than...he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and tho' he does not know I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked any thing of me for... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1886 - 104 pages
...because I THE GRAY PAD. know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than...he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and tho' he does not know I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked any thing of me for... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 pages
...; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than...taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is • ever} day soliciting me for something in behalf of one... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...parish; and because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, erity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude...Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which ca anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...parish ; and because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than...taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1892 - 168 pages
...parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than...taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 358 pages
...parish; and because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than...taken notice of it, .has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, Sir Richard Steele - 1892 - 160 pages
...parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than...taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or... | |
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