 ... is at last dead, and for the first time quiet. He had the start of me at his birth by one year and two months, and I think we shall observe the same distance at our burial. I own I feel for his death, not because it will be my turn next, but because...  The Quarterly Review - 97. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1834Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 514 oldal
...for his death ; not because it will be my turn next, but because I knew him to be very good natured, and his hands to be extremely clean, and even too...came into them ; a very unministerial proceeding." From Walpole we learn that 1 The Count de Bernsdorffe, who was an Hanoverian by birth, died in 1772,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 498 oldal
...for his death ; not because it will be my turn next, but because I knew him to be very good natured, and his hands to be extremely clean, and even too...clean if that were possible. For, after all the great off1ces which he had held for fifty years, he died three hundred thousand pounds poorer than he was... | |
 | Philip Chesney Yorke - 1913 - 720 oldal
...feel for his death," writes Lord Chesterfield in 1 769, " because I knew him to be very good natured and his hands to be extremely clean, and even too...possible ; for after all the great offices which he held for 50 years he died £300,000 poorer than he was when he first came into them*." There is something... | |
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