 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...bonze in China. * * I rejected a life of luxury, indolence, and ease, from no other consideration than that boyish one of dress. So that my friends were...was undone ; and yet they thought it a pity, for one that had not the least harm in him, and was so very good-natured." The vicinity of Ballymahon to his... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...rejected the proposal. A priest in England is not the same mortified creature with a bonze in China. * * I rejected a life of luxury, indolence, and ease, from no other consideration than that boyish one of dress. So that my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was undone; and yet... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 pages
...rejected the propasal. A priest in England is not the same mortified creature with a bonze in China. * * I rejected a life of luxury, indolence, and ease, from no other consideration than that boyish one of dress. So that my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was undone ; and yet... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...rejected the proposal. A priest in England is not the same mortified creature with a bonze in China. * * I rejected a life of luxury, indolence, and ease, from no other consideration than that boyish one of dress. So that my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was undone ; and yet... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pages
...with a bonze in China : with us, not he that fasts best, but eats best, is reckoned the best liver; s at the breach. If they subscribe readily the first time, I renew considération but that boyish one of dress. So that my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - 1839 - 384 pages
...the proposal. A priest in England is not the same mortified creature, with a bronze in China. * * * I rejected a life of luxury, indolence, and ease, from no other consideration than that boyish one of dress. So that my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was undone; and yet... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...with a bonze in China ! with us, not he that fasts best, but eats best, is reckoned the best liver ; yet I rejected a life of luxury, indolence, and ease,...the least harm in him, and was so very goodnatured. setting him right, than at receiving his absurdities with submission : to flatter those we do not know... | |
 | 1845 - 746 pages
...thought was such a restraint upon my liberty, that I absolutely rejected the proposai. * » « • I rejected a life of luxury, indolence, and ease, from no other consideration than that boyish one of dress ; so that my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was undone, — and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...with a bonze in China : with us, not he that fasts best, but eats best, is reckoned the best liver ; yet I rejected a life of luxury, indolence, and ease,...yet they thought it a pity for one who had not the lead harm in him, and was NO very good-nt.tured. "Poverty naturally begets dependence, and I was admitted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...with a bonze in China : with us, not he that fasts best, but eats best, is reckoned the best liver ; undone! A letter to him from Hastmgs. I know the hand. thai boyish one of dress. So that my friends were now perfectly satisfied I was undone; and yet they... | |
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... or a black coat when I generally dressed in brown, I thought was such a restraint upon my liberty, that I absolutely rejected the proposal. A priest in England is not the same mortified creature with a bonze in China : with us, not he that fasts best,... 
