 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...delicacy he gave an instance at a time when he was in great distress. After the publication of his ' Life of Sir Walter Raleigh,' some booksellers, thinking...would sell a piece they were publishing, offered him a considerable sum to father it, which he refused with the greatest indignation. He was much addicted... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 552 pages
...Of this delicacy he gave an instance at a time when he was in great distress. After his publication of the ' Life of Sir Walter Raleigh,' some booksellers...would sell a piece they were publishing, offered him a considerable sum to father it, which he rejected with the greatest indignation." VOL. III. KK terity... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 pages
...Of this delicacy he gave an instance at a time when he was in great distress. After his publication of the life of Sir Walter Raleigh, some booksellers,...would sell a piece they were publishing, offered him a considerable sum to father it, which he rejected with the greatest indignation. — GROSE, FRANCIS,... | |
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I firmly believe, would ever have biassed him to insert any fact in his writings he did not believe, or to suppress any he did. Of this delicacy he gave an instance at a time when he was in great distress. After his publication of the ' Life of Sir Walter... 
