 ... whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in.  Select British Classics - Sida 41803Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - 530 sidor
...runs a story in the family, that [before I was born] my mother dreamt that she was [to bring forth] a judge; whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world seemed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1896 - 232 sidor
...hundred years. There runs a story in the family, that my mother dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge: whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.3 The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world seemed... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 sidor
...when my mother was gone with child of me about three months, she dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge. Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world, and... | |
 | 1897 - 282 sidor
...runs a story in the family, that, some time before my birth, my mother dreamt that her child was to be a judge. Whether this might proceed from a law-suit...; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any 10 dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1897 - 234 sidor
...runs a story in the family, that, some time before my birth, my mother dreamt that her child was to be a judge. Whether this might proceed from a law-suit...; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any 10 dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 392 sidor
...brought to Bed of a Judge? Whether this might proceed from a Law/Suit which was then depend/ r ing in the Family, or my Father's being a Justice of the...think it presaged any Dignity that I should arrive at T HAVE observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book A with Pleasure, ' till he knows whether the Writer... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 824 sidor
...gone with child of me about three months, she dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge. \Vhether this might proceed from a lawsuit which was then depending...which the neighbourhood put upon it. The gravity of my behaviour at my very first appearance in the world, and all the time that I sucked, seemed to favour... | |
 | SAMUEL THRBER - 1898 - 236 sidor
...hundred years. There runs a story in the family, that my mother dreamed that her child was destined to be a judge. Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit...life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it. The gravity of my behavior at my very first appearance in the world, and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1898 - 264 sidor
...story in the family, that my mother dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge : Whether this 10 might proceed from a lawsuit which was then depending in the family, or my father 's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1898 - 264 sidor
...hundred years. There runs a story in the family, that my mother dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge: Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit which was then depend- 10 ing in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine ; for... | |
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