 | 1865 - 514 pages
...them to go back to their country-seats. " Gentlemen," he would say, "at London, you are like ships at sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country...you are like ships in a river, which look like great tilings." The gentry need »o such royal advice now-a-days. Our own country lias now, and always has... | |
 | Elizabeth Penrose - 1869 - 528 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 tilings." He expressed also the same opinion in parliament, in one of... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pages
...country houses ; and sometimes he would say thus to them : "Gentlemen, at London you are like ships at sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country...like ships in a river, which look like great things." ffltr reliet 'Woman. PART I. T the foot of a steep, slippery, white hill, near Dunstable, in Bedfordshire,... | |
 | Tom Taylor - 1874 - 554 pages
...special licence, and, Lord Bacon tells us, would sometimes say to them, " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea which show like nothing; but in the country villages you arc like ships on a river, which look like great things." An Act of 1657 shows... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...country houses. And sometimes he would say thus to them, " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships at sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country...like ships in a river, which look like great things." 8. Soon ofter the death of a great officer, who was judged no advancer of the king's matters, the king... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1878 - 608 pages
...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." ' — Lord Bacon, A})oj>ht/i(g>rw ; Hume, Hut. iv. 355. THE LANDED INTEREST. 467 ety : as magistrates... | |
 | David Hume - 1882 - 614 pages
...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 ;...you are like ships in a river, which look like great things.1 " * He was not content with reproof and exhortation. As Queen Elizabeth had perceired with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...country houses. And sometimes he would say thus to them: " Gentlemen, at London, you are like ships at sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country...like ships in a river, which look like great things." Count Gondomar sent a compliment to my Lord St. Alban, wishing him a good Easter. My lord thanked the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...country houses. And sometimes he would say thus to them, " Gentlemen, at London you are like ships at sea, which show like nothing ; but in your country...like ships in a river, which look like great things." In eighty-eight, when the queen went from Temple-bar along Fleetstreet, the lawyers were ranked on... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 pages
...from London to their country homes, and sometimes he would say 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." ' This was not very complimentary, but it was probably spoken in the king's broad, rough Scotch, and... | |
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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. 
