I have spent more than a fortnight every second day at the Duke of Hamilton's, but it seems they like me more as a jester than as a companion ; so I disdained so servile an employment : 'twas unworthy my calling as a physician. The Quarterly Review - Página 293editado por - 1836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1856 - 754 páginas
...supposed their Value would have baen scarcely recognized. For in one of his letters he soys, "I hare spent more than a fortnight every second day at the Duke of Hamilton's, but it seems thev like me, more as a jester than as a companion, so I disdain so servile an employment, as unworthy... | |
| Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 páginas
...however, he had the good sense to appreciate correctly. " I have spent," says he, in one of his letters, " more than a fortnight every second day at the Duke...companion ; so I disdained so servile an employment, as unworthy my calling as a physician." After spending two winters at Edinburgh he prepared to finish... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - 664 páginas
...the good sense to appreciate correctly. " I have spent," says he, in one of his letters, " more thnn a fortnight every second day at the Duke of Hamilton's...companion, so I disdained so servile an employment as unworthy my calling as a physician." Here we again find the origin of another passage in his autobiography,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 páginas
...good sense to appreciate correctly. " I have spent," says he, in one of his letters, " more than-a fortnight every second day at the Duke of Hamilton's...companion, so I disdained so servile an employment as unworthy my calling as a physician." Here we again find the origin of another passage in his autobiography,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1868 - 486 páginas
...however, he had the good sense to appreciate correctly. "I have spent," says he, in one of his letters, " more than a fortnight every second day at the Duke...companion, so I disdained so servile an employment as unworthy my calling as a physician." Here we again find the origin of another passage in his autobiography,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 páginas
...day at the Duke of Hamilton's but ft seems they like me more as a jester than as n companion ; so 1 disdained so servile an employment : 'twas unworthy my calling as a physician. I have nothing now to mid from this country : and I beg. dear sir, you will excuse this letter, so... | |
| John Forster - 1873 - 806 páginas
...just 33Z. to France, •with good store of clothes, shirts, &c. &c. and that with._economy will serve. "I have spent more than a fortnight every second day...employment; 'twas unworthy my calling as a physician. "I have nothing new to add from this country; and I beg, dear Sir, you will excuse this letter, so... | |
| John Forster - 1877 - 468 páginas
...his time accepted employment in a great man's house : probably as tutor. " I have spent," ho says, " more than a fortnight every second day at the Duke...but it seems they like me more as a jester than as "buffoonery, from which defects, notwithstanding he was afterwards introduced "into the politest company,... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1878 - 394 páginas
...hereditary keeper,—did not last out three weeks. " It seems," he writes to his uncle Contarine, " they like me more as a jester than as a companion, so I disdained so servile an employment." To jest, with all the vivacity of unrestrained mirth, among his fellow-students in the College Wynd,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 páginas
...however, he had the good sense to appreciate correctly. " I have spent," says he, in one of his letters, " more than a fortnight every second day at the Duke...companion, so I disdained so servile an employment as unworthy my calling as a physician." Here we again find the origin of another passage in his autobiography,... | |
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