 | Charles Phillips - 1818 - 356 páginas
...a great many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I should be of my wealth, could I stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption. ' If I...cease to be so, many an example shows me, that an ill-acquired elevation, by making me the more conspicuous, would only make me the more universally... | |
 | 1818 - 498 páginas
...a (peat many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I should be of my wealth, could I stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption. If I rise...should I ever cease to be so, many an example shows me, tbat an ill-acquired elevation, by making me tbt more conspicuous, would only make me the more universally... | |
 | 1821 - 518 páginas
...composition of many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I should of my wealth, could I stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption, if I rise...be honest; and should I ever cease to be so, many examples shew me, that an ill-acquired elevation, by rendering me more conspicuous, would only make... | |
 | 1821 - 508 páginas
...poverty, but 1 should of thy wealth, could I stoop to acquire it by servility and corrtptiort. If 1 rise not to rank, I shall at least be honest ; and should 1 ever cease to fee so, rMfiy 'examples shew me, that an ill-acquired elevation, by rendering me more... | |
 | 1822 - 696 páginas
...of a great many bad ones: I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I should of my wealth, could I stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption. If I rise...cease to be so, many an example shows me, that an ill-acquired elevation, by making me the more conspicuous, would only make me the more universally... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1822 - 434 páginas
...of a great many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I should of my wealth, could I stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption. If I rise...cease to be so, many an example shows me, that an ill-acquired elevation, by making me the more conspicuous, would only make me the more universally... | |
 | 1824 - 394 páginas
...composition of many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I should of my wealth, could I stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption. If I rise...be honest ; and should I ever cease to be so, many examples shew me, that an illacquired elevation, by rendering me more conspicuous, would only make... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 434 páginas
...than by the composition of a great many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty ; but I should l»: ashamed of my wealth, could I have stooped to acquire...the more conspicuous, would only make me the more contemptible." — Lord Brougham's Statesman, vol. ii, p. 191-2. It is always a matter of difficulty... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 páginas
...a great many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty, but I should be of my wealth, could I stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption. If I rise...cease to be so, many an example shows me, that an ill-acquired elevation, by making me the more conspicuous, would only make me the more universally... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 páginas
...great many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty ; but I should be ashamed of my wealth, could 18* I have stooped to acquire it by servility and corruption....cease to be so, many an. example shows me that an ifi-gained elevation, by making me the more conspicuous, would only make me the more universally and... | |
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I stoop to acquire it by servility and corruption. ' If I rise not to rank, I shall at least be honest ; and should I ever cease to be so, many an example shows me, that an ill-acquired elevation, by making me the more conspicuous, would only make me... 
