 Let others plead for pensions ; I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to every thing poor. I would have my services to my Country unstained by any interested motive ; and old Scott and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much...  Collingwood - Pàgina 176per William Clark Russell - 1891 - 271 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1828 - 598 pàgines
...plead for pensions : I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to every thing poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive, and old Scott, (the gardener) and I, can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly.'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pàgines
...plead for pensions : I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to every thing poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive, and old Scott, (the gardener) and I, can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly.'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pàgines
...plead for pensions : I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to every thing poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive, and old Scott, (the gardener) and I, can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly.'... | |
 | comte Alfred Victor de Vigny, sir Charles James Napier - 1840 - 788 pàgines
...plead for pensions ; I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to every thing poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive." Sometimes, when he felt his health declining, he solicited indulgence from England ; but the inexorable... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 622 pàgines
...plead for pensions ; I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to everything poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive ; and old Scot and I can go oit in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly. But I have... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 pàgines
...plead for pensions ; I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to every thing poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive ; and old Scott and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly. But I have had a great... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 pàgines
...plead for pensions ; I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to every thing poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive ; and old Scott and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly. But I have had a great... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 470 pàgines
...Collingwood to a friend ; " I can be rich without money, by endeavoring to be superior to everything poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive ; and old Scott* and I can go on hi our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly." On another occasion he... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 448 pàgines
...Collingwood to a friend ; " I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to everything poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive ; and old Scott * and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly." On another occasion he... | |
 | 1882 - 478 pàgines
...Collingwood to a friend; " I can be rich without money, by endeavoring to be superior to everything poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive; and old Scott* and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly." On * His old gardener.... | |
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