 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 pages
...said of CJharles himself, that he did by Tangiers as Lord Caernarvon said of wood, which he termed ' an excrescence of the earth, provided by God for the payment of debts.' The same might at that time have been said of most of the great employments in England, which were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 396 pages
...was said of Charles himself, that he did by Tangiers as Lord Caernarvon said of wood, which he termed an" excrescence of the earth, provided by God for the payment of debts." The same might at that time have been said of most of the great employments in England, which were... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 pages
...said of Charles himself, that he did by Tangiers as Lord CaernarTOTI said of wood, which he termed an" excrescence of the earth, provided by God for the payment of debts." The same might at that time have been said of most of the great employments in England, -which were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...was said of Charles himself, that he did by Tangiers as Lord Caernarvon said of wood, which he termed an "excrescence of the earth, provided by God for the payment of debts." The same might at that time have been said of most of the great employments in England, which were... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 pages
...witty, and time expressive definition, often came into practical application : " Wood," says he, " is an excrescence of the earth, provided by God for the payment of debts." It is recorded by one of the diarists of the day, that £1000, or £1500, was a common bet upon various... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - 1845 - 1058 pages
...killing him in the duel. Forests were felled to pay for one night's excitement ; and wood was called " an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts." Konigsmark delighted in this excitement, for in Paris he had recruited his almost exhausted finances,... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 pages
...witty, and time expressive definition, often came into practical application : " Wood," says he, " is an excrescence of the earth, provided by God for the payment of debts.'''' It is recorded by one of the diarists of the day, that £1000, or £1500, was a common bet upon various... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 316 pages
...used these words:—' That this place was to the king, as my Lord Carnarvon says of wood, that it is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.'" Here we may see, that the high tone of indifference to the people did not originate in the present... | |
 | Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 500 pages
...used these words : " That this place was to the King as my Lord Carnarvon2 says of wood, that it is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts." This day Sir W. Coventry tells me the Dutch fleete shot some shot, four or five hundred, into 1 Now... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 292 pages
...the whole practice of a great city, nor for my lord's reason, as Pepys gives it, "that its woods are an excrescence of the earth, provided by God for the payment of debts;" nor, as many grown-up people like it, because it is the abode of that country gentleman, whom Sir Thomas... | |
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Carnarvon2 says of wood, that it is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts. 
