 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - Authorship - 1926 - 236 pages
...answer to the summons I should plead inability as my best and only excuse. And this by the way . . . reminds me of what I am very apt to forget when I...business in hand, that a letter may be written upon anything or nothing just as that anything or nothing happens to occur." Cowper's retirement at Olney... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 602 pages
...should plead inahility as my best and only excuse. And this by the way suggests to me a seasonable piece of instruction, and reminds me of what I am very apt...thing or nothing, just as that any thing or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform... | |
 | 1874 - 748 pages
...plead inability as my best and only excuse. And this, by the way, suggests to me a seasonable piece of instruction, and reminds me of what I am very apt...business in hand ; that a letter may be written upon anything or nothing just as that anything or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1874 - 820 pages
...plead inability as my best and only excuse. And this, by the way, suggests to me a seasonable piece of instruction, and reminds me of what I am very apt...any epistolary business in hand; that a letter may bo written upon anything or nothing just as that anything or nothing happens to occur. A man that has... | |
 | Theology - 1820 - 684 pages
...excuse. And Ihis by the way, suggests to me a seasonable piece of instruction, and reminds me of wbat I am very apt to forget, when I have any epistolary business in band ; that a letter may be written upon any thing or nothing, just as that any thing or nothing happens... | |
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I came in, have you resolved never to speak again?" it would be but a poor reply, if, in answer to the summons, I should plead inability as my best and only excuse. And this, by the way, suggests to me a seasonable piece of instruction, and reminds me... 
