 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...in gratitude to my king, who has so graciously conferred them upon me :' and he asks, ' How shall we be able to support the dignity to which his majesty...unstained by any interested motive, and old Scott, (the gardener) and I, can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly.'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...in gratitude to my king, who has so graciously conferred them upon me:' and he asks, ' How shall we be able to support the dignity to which his majesty...unstained by any interested motive, and old Scott, (the gardener) and I, can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly.'... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...in gratitude to my king, who has so graciously conferred them upon me :' and he asks, ' How shall we be able to support the dignity to Which his majesty...unstained by any interested motive, and old Scott, (the gardener) and I, can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly.'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...able to support the dignity to which his majesty has been pleased to raise me ? Let others plead fop pensions : I can be rich without money, by endeavouring...unstained by any interested motive, and old Scott, (the gardener) and I, can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly.'... | |
 | comte Alfred Victor de Vigny, sir Charles James Napier - France - 1840 - 788 pages
...and the plan of which he had formed with his friend Nelson, whom he succeeded, he wrote to his wife : "I hardly know how we shall be able to support the...to my country unstained by any interested motive." Sometimes, when he felt his health declining, he solicited indulgence from England ; but the inexorable... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...others plead for pensions ; I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to everything poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive ; and old Scot and I can go oit in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly. But I have... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 754 pages
...my life attained." And again, in the same noble spirit is the following to his father-in-law: — " I have only been on shore once since I left England,...interested motive ; and old Scott and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly. But I have had a great destruction of my... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English literature - 1846 - 756 pages
...my life attained." And again, in the same noble spirit is the following to his father-in-law: — " I have only been on shore once since I left England,...interested motive ; and old Scott and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly. But I have had a great destruction of my... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Tytler - Admirals - 1847 - 388 pages
...superior to everything poor. I would have my services unstained by any interested motive, and old Scot and I, can go on in our cabbage garden without much...furniture and stock. I have hardly a chair that has not a slit in it, and many have lost both legs and arms, without hope of pension. My soup is served in a... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 448 pages
...Collingwood to a friend ; " I can be rich without money, by endeavoring to be superior to everything poor. I would have my services to my country unstained...interested motive ; and old. Scott * and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly." On another occasion he said, " I have motives... | |
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I hardly know how we shall be able to support the dignity to which his Majesty has been pleased to raise me. Let others plead for pensions ; I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be superior to every thing poor. 
