 ... pleasant, but very idle fellows. Our life was an imitation of High Life in London; luckily drinking was not the fashion, but what we did drink was claret, and we had our regular round of evening card parties, to the great annoyance of our finances....  Merton College - Seite 164von Bernard William Henderson - 1899 - 294 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Harris Earl of Malmesbury - 1844 - 574 Seiten
...parties, to the great annoyance of our finances. It has often been a matter of surprise to me, how so many of us made our way so well in the world, and so creditably. Charles Fox, Lord Romney, North, Bishop of Winchester, Sir J. Stepney, Lord Robert Spencer, William... | |
 | George Roberson, John Richard Green - 1859 - 146 Seiten
...concern about his pupils. I never saw him but during a fortnight when I took it into my head to study trigonometry. The set of men with whom I lived were...our way so well in the world, and so creditably." How far these excesses might be carried with comparative impunity we learn from the anecdotes which... | |
 | 1874 - 772 Seiten
...large. Whereas Mr Harris (afterwards the first Ld. Malmesbury) says of his career at Merton in 1762, 'Our life was an imitation of High Life in London....our way so well in the world, and so creditably:' in 1785 (Mr Gunning says, Reminisc. I. xx. 24, 50), drinking was almost universal. Professor Pryme... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1880 - 490 Seiten
...card-parties, to the great annoyance of onr finances. It has often been a matter of surprise to me how so many of us made our way so well in the world, and so creditably." ' 1 Lord Malmesbury was the son of Mr. Harris, a member of Parliament and a placeman, with a love for... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1880 - 368 Seiten
...card-parties, to the great annoyance of our finances. It has often been a matter of surprise to me how so many of us made our way so well in the world, and so creditably."1 Among these pleasant fellows Charles Fox passed 1 Lord Malmesbury was the son of Mr.... | |
 | 1881 - 692 Seiten
...card-parties, to the great annoyance of our finances. It has often been a matter of surprise to me how so many of us made our way so well in the world, and so creditably." There was less reason for surprise in the case of Fox than in most of the others, because, though dissipated,... | |
 | Lilian M. Quiller-Couch - 1892 - 466 Seiten
...parties, to the great annoyance of our finances. It has often been a matter of surprise to me, how so many of us made our way so well in the world, and so creditably. Charles Fox1, Lord Romney2, North3, Bishop of Winchester, Sir J. Stepney4, Lord Robert Spencer5, William... | |
 | Alice Stopford Green - 1901 - 354 Seiten
...card parties, to the great annoyance of our finances. It has often been a matter of surprise to me how so many of us made our way so well in the world, and so creditably." 1 How far these excesses might be carried with. comparative impunity we learn from the anecdotes which... | |
 | John Richard Green, George Roberson - 1901 - 458 Seiten
...card parties, to the great annoyance of our finances. It has often been a matter of surprise to me how so many of us made our way so well in the world, and so creditably." How far these excesses might be carried with comparative impunity we learn from the anecdotes which... | |
 | 1902 - 362 Seiten
...card parties, to the great annoyance of our finances. It has often been a matter of surprise to me how many of us made our way so well in the world and so creditably. Charles Fox, Lord Romney, North, Bishop of Winchester, Sir J. Stepney, Lord Robert Spencer, William... | |
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