 | 1822 - 452 Seiten
...thousand pounds from Doddington, seeing him pass under his window, he said to Hedges, his secretary, " That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men in England, yet, with all his parts, I have just nicked him out of five thousand pounds." He was really childish,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 502 Seiten
...seems to have been totally without principle. He once persuaded Bubb Doddington to lend him 5,000/. and, immediately afterwards, observing him pass by...Doddington some time afterwards said of the Prince: " 11 a tine idle tctc et un tel cceur, (ju*on ne pcut ricn faire avcc lui." The Prince's private tastes and... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 488 Seiten
...seems to have been totally without principle. He once persuaded Bubb Doddington to lend him 5,OGO/. and, immediately afterwards, observing him pass by...Doddington some time afterwards said of the Prince: " // a une Idle tcte et un tel cceur, yiion ne peut rien faire avec lui." The Prince's private tastes... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 492 Seiten
...seems to have been totally without principle. He once persuaded Bubb Doddington to lend him 5,000/. and, immediately afterwards, observing him pass by...Doddington some time afterwards said of the Prince: " 1l a une Idle t£te et un tel cceur, qu'on ne peut rkn fairs avec lul" The Prince's private tastes... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1847 - 540 Seiten
...thousand pounds of Doddington, seeing him pass under his window, he said to Hedges 1 his Secretary, " That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men in England, yet with all his parts, I have just nicked him out of five thousand pounds." He was really childish,... | |
 | 1847 - 806 Seiten
...borrowed £5000 of Doddington, seeing' him pass under his window, he said to Hedges, his secretary, ‘that man is reckoned one of the most sensible men in England; yet, with all his parts, I have just tricked him out of £5000 ! “ A line from Earl Stanhope summed... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 Seiten
...Secretary, Charles Hedges, exclaiming, with a chuckling kind of satisfaction at his own dexterity, "That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men in England, yet, with all his parts, I have just nicked him out of * " Walpole'6 George II." Vol. 1, p. 432. five... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1852 - 532 Seiten
...Secretary, Charles Hedges, exclaiming, with a chuckling kind of satisfaction at his own dexterity, "That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men in England, yet, with all his parts, I have just nicked him out of five thousand pounds."" * Unfortunately, the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 342 Seiten
...day, from a window in Kensington Palace, and seeing title-hunting • Bubb Doddington go by, he said, "That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men...all his cleverness, I have just nicked him out of £5000." Traits like these made his parents call to mind what an honest governor said of him when he... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1860 - 332 Seiten
...day, from a window in Kensington Palace, and seeing title-hunting Bubb Doddington go by, he said, " That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men...all his cleverness, I have just nicked him out of £5000." Traits like these made his parents call to mind what an honest governor said of him when he... | |
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and, immediately afterwards, observing him pass by the windows of Kensington Palace, he remarked to a person near him: " That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men in England, and yet, with all his cleverness, I have just nicked him out of 5,000/."... 
