 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 546 pages
...And, added to this, I am a cripple, lifted about like a child, and very seldom free from pain. " 1740. As I have seen so much of a very bad world, I must...am obliged to take care of, which are a great many. " 1740. Some of those people who call themselves patriots are certainly very good men : but I am very... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 530 pages
...coronation he carried the Sceptre with the Cross in the procession. His mother-in-law says of him : — " All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two-and-fifty ; to get people into his garden and wet them with squirts, and to invite people the Queen... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...coronation he carried the Sceptre with the Cross in the procession. His mother-in-law says of him : — " All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two-and -fifty ; to get people into his garden and wet them with squirts, and to invite people the... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 384 pages
...coronation he carried the sceptre with the cross in the procession. His mother-in-law says of him: "All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two-and-fif ty ; to get people into his garden and wet them with squirts, and to invite people to his... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Authors, French - 1908 - 326 pages
...England from the Revolution to the Dtath of George II., vol. iii. pp. 58-61. " All my son-in-law's talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two-and-fifty : to get people into his garden and wet them with squirts, and to invite people to his... | |
 | Richard Alexander Streatfeild - Music - 1910 - 418 pages
...seems to have outgrown it. In 1740 his mother-in-law, the old Duchess of Marlborough, wrote of him : " All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two-and-fifty ; to get people into his garden and wet them with squirts, and to invite people to his... | |
 | Aurélien Digeon - 1925 - 282 pages
...sufficient symptoms of that bona idoles, that sweetness of disposition, which furnishes out writes : " All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two-and-fifty ; to get people into his garden and wet them with squirts and to invite people to his... | |
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All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two and fifty ; to get people into his garden and wet them with squirts, and to invite people to his country houses, and put things into their beds to make them itch,... 