 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 páginas
...i, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for " a dogged veracity."* He said too, " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...intellectual, London is the place. And there is no place where oeconomy can be so well practised as in London. More can be had here for the money, even by ladies,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 372 páginas
...April 1, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for ' a dogged veracity.' He said too, ' London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than anywhere else. You cannot play tricks with your fortune in a small place ; you must make an uniform... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 páginas
...1, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire, for "a dogged veracity." *' He said too, " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than anywhere else. You cannot play tricks with your . fortune in a small place ; you must make an uniform... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1907 - 606 páginas
...that wonder and mystery, that microcosm of the universe, London ! Johnson once said that " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place." If my readers agree with the great lexicographer, to borrow Miss Pinkerton's phrase, I shall hardly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 páginas
...1, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for " a dogged veracity."* He said too, " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...intellectual, London is the place. And there is no place where oeconomy can be so well practised as in London. More can be had here for the money, even by ladies,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 502 páginas
...appearance, but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross." — " London," he said, " is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place." On another occasion he said : " The town is my element ; there are my friends, there are my books,... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 400 páginas
...circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place." " The town is my element ; there are my friends, there are my books, to which I have not yet bid farewell,... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1912 - 400 páginas
...circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place." " The town is my element ; there are my friends, there are my books, to which I have not yet bid farewell,... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 406 páginas
...circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom." " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place." " The town is my element ; there are my friends, there are my books, to which I have not yet bid farewell,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 páginas
...April 1, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for a "dogged veracity." He said too, "London is nothing to some people; but to a man whose pleasure...can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than anywhere else. Yon cannot play tricks with your fortune in a small place ; you must make an uniform... | |
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London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place. And there is no place where economy can be so well practised as in London : more can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than anywhere else. 
