| Richard Green Parker - 1865 - 300 pàgines
...saw any one too ambitious1 of court-favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees,2 his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. 6. When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
| 1872 - 660 pàgines
...saw any one too ambitious of court-favor, sacrificing his time in attendance at levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too muck for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
| William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 pàgines
...I saw one too ambitious of court favour, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and, perhaps, his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. "When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 562 pàgines
...When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 768 pàgines
...When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 280 pàgines
...of the favor of the great, wasting his time in attendance on public dinners, sacrificing his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, " This man gives too much for his whistle." 7. When I saw another fond of popularity,... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 296 pàgines
...any one too aambitious of 2court favour, sacrificing his time in attendance at 3levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I said to myself, " This man gives too much for his whistle." If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind... | |
| Secrets - 1882 - 74 pàgines
...saw any one too ambitious of court favours, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends to attain it, I said to myself: This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another, fond of popularity, constantly... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1884 - 564 pàgines
...When I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 pàgines
...I saw one too ambitious of court favor, sacrificing his time in attendance on levees,1 his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his friends, to attain it, I have said to myself, This man gives too much for his whistle. "When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly... | |
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