 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - Fishing - 1775 - 620 pages
...nature hath made them of a four complexion, money-getting men, men that fpend all their time firll in getting, and next in anxious care to keep it ; men that are condemned to be rich, and then always bufy or difcontented : for thefe poor-rich-men, we Anglers pity them perfectly, and fland in no need... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...taken to be grave, because Nature hath made them of a sour complexion, money-getting men, men that spend all their time first in getting, and next in...no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves happy. No, no, Sir, we enjoy a contentedness above the reach of such dispositions, and as the learned... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 386 pages
...be grave, because Nature hath made them of a sour complexion, money-getting men, men that spend alt their time first in getting, and next in anxious care...no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves happy. No, no, Sir, we enjoy a o >n tiMitedness above the reach of luch dispositions, and as the learned... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion; money-getting men, men that spend all their time, first in getting, and next,...then always busy or discontented : for these poor rich-men, we Anglers pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 426 pages
...on, and be a scoffer still ; but I account them an enemy to me and all that love virtue and angling. men, we anglers pity them perfectly, and stand in...no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves happy. No, no, Sir, we enjoy a contentedness above the reach of such dispositions, and as the learned... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion, money-getting men, men that spend all their time first in getting, and next in...rich, and then always busy or discontented : for these poor-rich-men, we Anglers pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think... | |
 | Hunting - 1828 - 560 pages
...them of a sour complexion ; money-getting men ; men, that spend all their time first in getting it, and next in anxious care to keep it ; men, that are condemned to be rich, and then always busy and discontented. For these poor rich men we anglers pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to borrow... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Amusements - 1832 - 426 pages
...taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion ; money-getting men ; men that spend all their time, first in getting, and next in...rich, and then always busy or discontented : for these poor-rich-men, we pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Sports - 1832 - 432 pages
...taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion ; money-getting men ; men that spend all their time, first in getting, and next in anxious care to keep it ; men that arc condemned to be rich, and then always bvsj or discontented : for these poor-ricli-men, we pity... | |
 | Tasmania - 1833 - 388 pages
...because nature hath made them of a sour complexion ; money-getting men, (Izaak Walton loqnitur-menj that spend all their time, first in getting, and next,...busy or discontented ; for these poor, rich men, we angler's pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts, to think ourselves so... | |
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Sir, there be many men that are by others taken to be serious and grave men, which we contemn and pity. Men that are taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion, money-getting men, men that spend all their time first in getting,... 
