 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 428 pages
...what a veneration we ufed to have for fir William Temple, becaufe he might have been fecretaryof ftate at fifty; and here is a young fellow, hardly thirty, in that employment. His father is a man of pleafure, that walks the Mall, and frequents Sf. James's Coffec-houfe, and the Chocolate-hoxfes, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 424 pages
...three compliments. I am thinking what a veneration we ufed to have for Sir William Temple, becaufe he might have been Secretary of State at fifty ; and...'thirty, in that employment. His father is a man of pleafure, that walks the Mall, and frequents St. James's Coffee-houfe, and the Chocolate-houfes, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 464 pages
...a veneration we ufed to have for Sir William Temple, becaufe he might have been fecretary of (late at fifty ; and here is a young fellow, hardly thirty, in that employment. His father' is a man of pleafure, that walks the Mall, and frequents St. James's Coffee-houfe, and the chocolate-houfes, and... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 546 pages
...was baptized October 10, 1678. This seems to coincide with what Swift says of him, in a letter dated 1710 : " I am thinking what a veneration we used to...a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment." After the many instances we have had of late years of the precocity of statesmen, Swift's remark will... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount), Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1809 - 486 pages
...was baptized October 10, 1678. This seems to coincide with what Swift says of him, in a letter dated 1710 : " I am thinking what a veneration we used to...might have been secretary of state at fifty ; and here js a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment." After the many instances we have had of late years... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 378 pages
...reckon so very good neither. But Prior was damped until I stuffed him with two or three compliments. I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir WilliamTemple, because . he might have been secretary of state at fifty ; and here is a young fellow,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 pages
...Physic, and other medical treatises. was damped until I stuffed him with two or three compliments.* I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for sir William Temple, because he might have heen secretary of state al fifty; and here is a young fellow, hardly thirty, in that employment.')'... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 pages
...Physic, and other medical treatises. was damped until I stuffed him with two or three compliments. * I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for sir William Tem ple,' because he might have heen secretary of state at fifty ; and here is a young fellow, hardly... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 542 pages
...reckon so very good neither. But Prior was damped until I stuffed him with two or three compliments, f I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for...a young fellow, hardly thirty, in that employment. J His father is a man of pleasure, that walks the Mall, and frequents St James's * Dr John Freind,... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Authors, English - 1836 - 536 pages
...of the age, he should think less grandly of his first patron. " I am thinking," he tells Stella *, " what a veneration we used to have for Sir William...Secretary of State at fifty; and here is a young fellow t hardly thirty in that employment." And, " Nov. 3. lyil.—The Secretary is as easy with me as Mr.... | |
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I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William Temple because he might have been Secretary of State at fifty ; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment. 
