 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1819 - 524 pages
...every kind of improvement, 1 chuse to pay for out of my income. I consider the pleasure of every thing to lie in the pursuit; and therefore, while I am contented...nothing with relation to the opinion of others, and every thing from a thorough knowledge of my own tastes and feelings, I do nothing that does not permanently... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1820 - 544 pages
...every kind of improvement, I chuse to pay for out of my income. I consider the pleasure of every thing to lie in the pursuit ; and therefore, while I am...nothing with relation to the opinion of others, and every thing from a thorough knowledge of my own tastes and feelings, I do nothing that does not permanently... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1821 - 488 pages
...every kind of improvement, I cbuse to pay for out of my income. I consider the pleasure of every thing to lie in the pursuit ; and therefore, while I am...conveniences I enjoy, it is a matter of indifference whether ( am five or twenty years in completing my intended plans. This scheme also is connected with my own... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - England - 1854 - 608 pages
...! He says the soil he has taken is barren, — 'the most completely barren in England,' — adding, 'I consider the pleasure of everything to lie in the...enjoy, it is a matter of indifference whether I am fire, or twenty years in completing my intended plans. I have, besides, another very material reason,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - Hampshire (England) - 1876 - 568 pages
...of pocket 300Z. a year by it." The soil "is the most completely barren in England ;" but he adds, " I consider the pleasure of everything to lie in the...enjoy, it is a matter of indifference whether I am 5 or 20 years In completing my intended plans. I have besides another material reason, which is, that... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 524 pages
...£300 a year by trying to make a barren land yield some harvest, but he said bravely and nobly : " I consider the pleasure of everything to lie in the...five or twenty years in completing my intended plans. I have besides another material reason, which is, that it enables me to employ the poor." I went out... | |
 | F. W. Bockett - Cycling - 1901 - 302 pages
...lost ^300 a year by trying to make a barren land yield some harvest, but he said bravely and nobly : " I consider the pleasure of everything to lie in the...five or twenty years in completing my intended plans. I have besides another material reason, which is, that it enables me to employ the poor." I went out... | |
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I consider the pleasure of every thing to lie in the pursuit ; and therefore, while I am contented with the conveniences I enjoy, it is a matter of indifference whether I am five or twenty years in completing my intended plans. This scheme also is connected... 