 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1815 - 576 pages
...Crown for Protection against public Clamor, in and out of Parliament. In the Distribution of Honors and Dignities, he was far more sparing than his Successor...Business I ever " knew; and gave one Reason for it; be" cause it delivered him from the Obligation " to talk much." Dodington, when relating Mr. Pelham's... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1815 - 570 pages
...Play, which accompanied them through Life : a Vice from which Lord North was wholly exempt. JBurnet, who recounts the Fact relative to the Lord Treasurer...Business I ever " knew; and gave one Reason for it; be" cause it delivered him from the Obligation " to talk much." Dodington, when relating Mr. Pelham's... | |
 | Lewis Innes, Thomas Innes, James Stanier Clarke, James II (King of England) - Great Britain - 1816 - 838 pages
...sincere way of managing the concerns of the Treasury, created in " all people a very high esteem for him. He loved gaming the most of any man " of business...delivered him " from the obligation to talk much: He had true principles of Religion and " Vertue, and was free from all Vanity, and never heaped up... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 500 pages
...sincere way of managing the concerns of the treasury created in all people a very high esteem for him. He loved gaming the most of any man of business I...for it, because it delivered him from the obligation 479 to talk much : he had true principles of religion ' and virtue, and was free from all vanity, and... | |
 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 516 pages
...sincere way of managing the concerns of the Treasury, created in all people a very high esteem for him. He loved gaming the most of any man of business I...it delivered him from the obligation to talk much. He had true principles of religion and virtue, and was free from all vanity, and never heaped up wealth,... | |
 | Roger North - 1826 - 496 pages
...sincere way of managing the concerns of the Treasury, created in all people a very high esteem for him. He loved gaming the most of any man of business I...it delivered him from the obligation to talk much. He had true principles of religion and virtue, and was free from all vanity, and never heaped up wealth,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 504 pages
...sincere way of managing the concerns of the treasury created in all people a very high esteem for him. He loved gaming the most of any man of business I...it delivered him from the obligation to talk much : he had true principles of religion 1 479 and virtue, and was free from all vanity, and never heaped... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...execution of any purpose adapted for the service of government." 9 ' liurnet's continuation is curious. " He loved gaming the most of any man of business I ever knew, and gave in reason for it, — that it delivered him from the obligation to talk much." 9 Somerville's History... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 628 pages
...not excepting Lord Godolphin, Mr. Pellmm, or the Marquis of Rockingham. The two former Individuals were justly accused of a Passion for Play, which accompanied...Obligation to talk much." Dodington, when relating Mr. Pel ham's Attachment to the same ruinous Gratification, adds, that he studiously concealed it with... | |
 | Henry Sidney Earl of Romney - Great Britain - 1843 - 432 pages
...sincere way of managing the concerns of the Treasury created in all people a very high esteem for him. He loved gaming the most of any man of business I...it delivered him from the obligation to talk much. He had true principles of religion and virtue, and never heaped up wealth. So that, all things laid... | |
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He loved gaming the most of any man of business I ever knew ; and gave one reason for it, because it delivered him from the obligation to talk much. 
