 ... especially as the Colony could utilize the proceeds from the sale of Crown Lands to create a fund for that purpose. In line with his visionary nature, was the fact that dull commercial pursuits were wholly unattractive to him, and, to quote his own...  The Autobiography of John Galt - Página 242por John Galt - 1833 - 412 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Galt - 1833 - 236 páginas
...was personally acquainted, was of all things, as it seemed, a stroke of good fortune ; but 1 soon saw in the business at Gibraltar I would be out of my...career in the Peninsula of the Duke of Wellington, and 1 do not exaggerate my feelings when I say that I repined at his victories. His triumphal entry into... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1833 - 690 páginas
...appointment, which led him to return to Gibraltar ; but ' unfor' Innately,' he says with much ingenuousness, ' I never in my ' life have been able to lay my heart...whatever, in ' which the imagination had not a share.' In this sentence he lays open the roots of his character. Our readers may recollect the circumstances... | |
 | 1833 - 578 páginas
...appointment, which led him to return to Gibraltar; but ' unfor' tunately,' he says with much ingenuousness, ' I never in my ' life have been able to lay my heart...whatever, in ' which the imagination had not a share.' In this sentence he lays open the roots of his character. Our readers may recollect the circumstances... | |
 | 1833 - 636 páginas
...comprehensive grasp, indeed ! Mr. Gait now is sent to Gibraltar by Mr. Finlay's house ; but he observes, " I never in my life have been able to lay my heart to any business in which the imagination had not a share!" At this time the Duke of Wellington was commencing that... | |
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