 | Francis Bacon - 1892 - 882 pages
...sometimes he would say thus to them ; Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which shew like nothing ; but in your country villages you are...like ships in a river, which look like great things. 9. Soon after the death of a great officer, who was judged no advancer of the King's matters, the King... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott À Beckett - 1894 - 728 pages
...would recommend the country gentlemen to remain at their seats, by saying to them, " In London you are like ships in a sea, which show like nothing ;...like ships in a river, which look like great things." This, after all, was a funny idea, but a bad argument ; for a ship in a river, like a storm in a puddle,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 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... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1904 - 384 pages
...estates in their counties, said to them, "Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which shew like nothing, but in your country villages you are...like ships in a river, which look like great things." * Out of this body of rural gentry from twenty to sixty in each county were chosen by the lord-chancellor... | |
 | Thomas Nash - 1910 - 486 pages
...sometimes he would say thus to them ; Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which shew like nothing; but in your country villages you are...like ships in a river, which look like great things'; also Webster, White Devil, V. i, ' Fran, de Med.... As ships seem very great upon the river, which... | |
 | Thomas Nash - 1910 - 500 pages
...would say thus to them ; Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which shew like nothing; out in your country villages you are like ships in a river, which look like great things ' ; also Webster, White Devil, V. i, ' Fran. de Med. ... As ships seem very great upon the river, which... | |
 | Thomas Nash - 1910 - 496 pages
...Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea, which shew like nothing; but in your country milages you are like ships in a river, which look like great things ' ; also Webster, White Devil, V. i, ' Fran. de Med. ... As ships seem very great upon the river, which... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1912 - 422 pages
...them, ' Gentlemen, at London you are like ships in a sea which show like nothing ; but in your own country villages you are like ships in a river which look like great things.' " King James renewed certain edicts of Queen Elizabeth and issued proclamations containing severe menaces... | |
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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. 
