 ... said my friend, carried his royal inclination a little too far, and there was a committee ordered to look into the . management of his treasury. Among other things it appeared, that his majesty walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Strana 235úprava: - 1823Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - Počet stránok 420
...walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, "Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world." The king out of his royal compassion privately 1 ' WP' (folio, corrected in No 252). 2 Essays, Book i. chap. 34. 3 No. 218. 4 Said to be Richard Nash,... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - Počet stránok 424
...walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, "Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world." The king out of his royal compassion privately 1 ' WP' (folio, corrected in No 252). 2 Essays, Book i. chap. 34. 3 No. 218. 4 Said to be Richard Nash,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - Počet stránok 302
...no wine but what was strained through character ; and finding him a proper object of charity, Bent him the money. When the committee read the report,...article in them : ' For making a man happy, £10.' "— STEKLE, The Spectator, No. 248. his mistress's smock.1 He would eat a pair of her shoes tossed... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907 - Počet stránok 314
...walking incog. in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world. The King, out of his...charity, sent him the money. When the committee read their report, the House passed his account with a plaudite without further examination, upon the recital... | |
 | Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold - 1910 - Počet stránok 406
...walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, ' Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world.' The king, out of his...house passed his accounts with a plaudite without further examination, upon the recital of this article in them : 'For making a man happy . . . £10... | |
 | Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold - 1910 - Počet stránok 404
...money. When the committee read the report, the house passed his accounts with a plaudite without further examination, upon the recital of this article in them : 'For making a man happy . . . ;£io o o."1 Goldsmith adds that the benchers added a further £10 to the donation, and that... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1913 - Počet stránok 480
...walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world. The king out of his...house passed his accounts with a plaudite without further examination, upon the recital of this article in them, ' For making a man happy, -£lO:0:0."'2... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - Počet stránok 652
...man say to another, " Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world." The king, oat of his royal compassion, privately inquired into his...him a proper object of charity, sent him the money. Wlien the committee read the report, the house passed his account with a plaudite without further examination,... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1913 - Počet stránok 486
...money. When the committee read the report, the house passed his accounts with a plaudite without further examination, upon the recital of this article in them, ' For making a man happy, ;£io:0:o."'2 At the English court the annual Lord of Misrule is not to be confounded with the Master... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - Počet stránok 492
...walking incog, in the cloister, had overheard a poor man say to another, "Such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world.'' The king, out of...house passed his accounts with a plaudite* without further examination, upon the recital of this article in them: £ sd For making a man happy 10 0 0... | |
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