 | English essays - 1825 - 724 pages
...with the new of flattering the pride or gratifying the ambition of othen, he conscientiously reel* that he is entitled; and many instances will be found...noble families are in these pages proved either to he now vested in other individuals, to have become extinct, or never to have been created to the ancestor... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 710 pages
...to be strictly true, with the view of flattering the pride or gratifying the ambition of others, no conscientiously feels that he is entitled ; and many...writer have been attributed to different noble families ore in these pages proved either to be now vested in other individuals, to have become extinct, or... | |
 | Great Britain - 1858 - 516 pages
...claims to the confidence of the public, may be applied without hesitation to the present editor. " To the merit of sedulous care, of rigid impartiality,...others, he conscientiously feels that he is entitled : nnd many instances will be found where dignities which by every previous writer have been attributed... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1893 - 610 pages
...and to having acted upon the resolution of not stating a single word which he did not believe to he strictly true, with the view of flattering the pride...ambition of others, he conscientiously feels that lie is entitled • . . . He has felt that with respect to hereditary honours, more than with any other... | |
 | John Horace Round - Genealogy - 1901 - 544 pages
...still at its lowest ebb, and when peerage writers had brought their craft into well-deserved contempt. To the merit of sedulous care, of rigid impartiality,...others, he conscientiously feels that he is entitled. . . . He has felt that with respect to hereditary honours, more than with any other worldly possession,... | |
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To the merit of sedulous care, of rigid impartiality, and to having acted upon the resolution of not stating a single word which he did not believe to be strictly true, with the view of flattering the pride, or gratifying the ambition of others, he conscientiously... 