 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre / — that I might obtain that regard...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 pages
...of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vaingneur du vainqueur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for...me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lord.jship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and -«, •, uncourtly... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; l that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When once I had addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1961 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, rny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service, Lucile B. Spurlock, Luthera Burton Dawson - 1961 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Calvin Darlington Linton - 1962 - 216 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it .... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...by your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address. . . But I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 pages
...Lordship, l was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address .. . ; but l found my attendance so little encouraged that neither...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. ... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since l waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from... | |
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When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre... 
