 | 1842 - 404 pages
...their own advantage. The king would often say to them, ' Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in the sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country...like ships in a river, which look like great things.' London was at that time almost entirely built of wood, and a very ugly city. The earl of Arundel first... | |
 | David Hume - 1848 - 560 pages
...from London to their country seats. And sometimes he would say thus to them : Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which show like nothing ;...like ships in a river, which look like great things '." He was not content with reproof and exhortation. As Queen Elizabeth had perceived with regret the... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1849 - 460 pages
...The king would often say to them, " Gentlemen, in London you are like ships in the sea, which shew like nothing ; but in your country villages, you are...like ships in a river, which look like great things." London in the reign of James I. was almost entirely built of wood, and was a very unsightly city. The... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...London to their country houses. And sometimes he would say thus to them, " Gentlemen, at London you s Bacon 9. Soon after the death of a great officer, who was judged no advancer of the king's matters, the king... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...country houses. And sometimes he would say thus to them, " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships at ysmd of the magnificent tftnple, palace, city, and...manifold steams of goodly navigable rivers, which, as 8. Soon after the death of a great officer, who was judged no advancer of the king's matters, the king... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1852 - 422 pages
...the seats of their ancestors. " At London," he would say, " you are like ships in the sea, which shew like nothing ; but in your country villages, you are like ships in a river, which shew like great things." Though the gentry were fond of flocking to London, it was at this time far... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...country houses. And sometimes he would say thus to them, "Gentlemen, at London you are like ships at con 8. Soon after the death of a great officer, who was judged no advancer of the king's matters, the king... | |
 | Elizabeth Cartwright Penrose - 1854 - 602 pages
...coming to it. He used to say to the country gentlemen, " At London you are like ships in a sea, you look like nothing ; but in your country villages you are like ships in rivers, which look like great things." He expressed also the same opinion in parliament, in one of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 348 pages
...country seats ; and sometimes would say to them : " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in the sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country villages, you are like ships in a-river, which look like great things." I do not mean, however, to say, that a great man should live... | |
 | David Hume - 1858 - 566 pages
...would Kay io them, Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which show like nothing ; hut in your country villages, you are like ships in a...like great things." The amount of the king's revenue iii this reign wag about four hundred and fifty thousand pounds ; and his ordinary disbursements are... | |
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And sometimes he would say thus to them, " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country villages you are like ships in a river, which look like great things. 
