 | 1818 - 498 pages
...redoubled elasticity ; he eyed the judge for a moment in the most contemptuous silence : — ' It is very true, my Lord, that I am poor, and the circumstance...has certainly rather curtailed my library, my books arc not numerous, but they are select, and I hope have been perused with proper dispositions . I have... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 434 pages
...disgraced. '' It is very true, my Lord, that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have been perused with proper dispositions. I have prepared myself for this high profession rather... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 420 pages
...scurrilous political pamphlets, and by his demerits raised to the eminence which he thus disgraced. " It is very true, my Lord, that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have... | |
 | 1840 - 582 pages
...is very true, my lord,' says Curran, ' that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have been perused with proper dispositions. I have prepared myself for this high profession rather... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 434 pages
...scurrilous political pamphlets, and by his demerits raised to the eminence which he thus disgraced. " It is very true, my lord, that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 440 pages
...scurrilous political pamphlets, and by his demerits raised to the eminence which he thus disgraced. " It is very true, my Lord, that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed niy library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 498 pages
...true, my Lord," replied the indignant barrister, "that I am poor, and the circumstance has somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have been perused with proper dispositions. I have prepared myself for this high profession rather... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...poverty, by telling him that he suspected "his law library was rather contracted." tainly somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have been perused with proper dispositions. I have prepared myself for this high profession rather... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...pamphlets, and by his demerits raised to the eminence which he thus disgraced. Curran replied : " It is very true, my Lord, that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...said Curran, with dignified respect, " that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have been perused with proper dispositions. I have prepared myself for this high profession rather... | |
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It is very true, my Lord, that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed my library : my books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope they have been perused with proper dispositions. I have prepared myself for this high... 
