 | John Brown - 1862 - 506 pàgines
...pleased you ; just as a man does most good by being good. Goldsmith puts it in his inimitable way — ' I was ever of opinion that the honest man, who married...continued single, and only talked of population.' I have said those things strongly, abruptly, and perhaps rudely ; but my heart is in the matter. Art... | |
 | 1862 - 808 pàgines
...Wakefield gegenüber von den damals im Schwange befmdlichen Bevölkerungstheorien , wenn er sagt : „I was ever of opinion that the honest man , who...did more service , than he who continued single and talked only of population." Obgleich uns die streng formelle aber dabei pedantisch gewissenhafte Bureaukratie... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pàgines
...pray we that our lives may throw, Bright shadows on the tide. THE VICAK OF WAKEFIELD AND HIS FAMILY. I was ever of opinion that the honest man, who married...only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife as she... | |
 | Henri van Laun - 1863 - 312 pàgines
...the kings of France . . . The same was the condition of the monarchs of Scotland. — ROBERTSON. 6. I was ever of opinion that the honest man who married...who continued single and only talked of population. — GOLDSMITH. 7. I wish'd it then, I wish it still.— BYRON. 8. I told you then, and tell you now,... | |
 | Alfred G. Havet - 1863 - 508 pàgines
...porte au voyageur ou au pauvre malheureux. I. I was ever of opinion that the honest man, who married1 and brought up a large family, did more service than...single', and only talked of population'. From this motive4, 1 had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony5, and chose... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pàgines
...religion will laugh at one whose chief stores of comfort are drawn from futurity. — Advertisement. I WAS ever of opinion that the honest man who married...single and only talked of population. From this motive 1 had scarcely taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose iny wife,... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1864 - 522 pàgines
...unlawful for a priest . . after the death of his first wife, to take a second (GOLDSM. , Vic. 2.). I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married...who continued single, and only talked of population (ib. 1.). What sort of a person is this Mr. Gower? I remember you said that he was clever and good-looking... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pàgines
...LIKENESS PREVAILS, AS WELL OF MINDS AS OF PERSONS. WAS ever of opinion that the honest man who mar1 ried and brought up a large family, did more 'service than...only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year, before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife as she... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 pàgines
...wore, And in his hand he bore a book, Thus did this ancient poet look. XVII. THE VICAR. I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown — not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. To do her justice,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 256 pàgines
...WAKEFIELD, IN WHICH A KINDRED LIKENESS PBETAILS, AS WELL OF MINDS AS OF PERSONS. I HAD taken orders scarcely a year, before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife, as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would wear well. To do her justice,... | |
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I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population. 
