 | 1842 - 276 pages
...of entail, and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the strictest settlement. The conformation of his mind was such, that whatever...whatever was great, seemed to him little. Serious husiness was a trifle to him, and trifles were his serious husiness. To chat with hlue-stockings, to... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...of Entail, and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the strictest settlement. The conformation of his mind was such, that whatever...trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business. To chat with blue-stockings, — to write little copies of complimentary verses on little occasions,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 360 pages
...would form the wish to be a Horace Walpole ? Certainly not, if the following criticism be true :—' Whatever was little ' seemed to him great; and whatever...great seemed ' to him little. Serious business was to him a trifle; ' and trifles were his serious businessf-' Turn we now to another part of the horizon:—there... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...of Entail, and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the strictest settlement. The conformation of his mind was such, that whatever...trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business. To chat with bluestockings ; to write little copies of complimentary verses on little occasions ; to... | |
 | 1841 - 500 pages
...of entail, and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the strictest settlement. The conformation of his mind was such, that whatever...trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business. To chat with blue-stockings ; to write little copies of complimentary verses on little occasions; to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...of entail, and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the strictest settlement. The conformation of his mind was such that whatever...trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business. To chat with blue-stockings, to write little copies of complimentary verses on little occasions, to... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pages
...set their inmates free. " He scoffed at Courts, and kept a chronicle of their most trifling scandal. The conformation of his mind was such that whatever...trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business," — continues Mr. Macaulay. But in what way could a scoffer at courts prove his sincerity more positively... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...of Entail, and tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the strictest settlement. The conformation of his mind was such, that whatever...trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business. To chat with blue stockings ; to write little copies of complimentary verses on little occasions ;... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...Oriiiimls In the poiienlon of the EiRLof WALDOBATC. Edited by LORD DOVER. 3 vols. 8vo. London. 1893. -* To chat with bluestockings; to write little copies of complimentary verses on little occasions ; to... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...the possession of the . ,.i <>r" \v«in«-,n*vi:. Kilned by LORD DOVER. 3 vola. „. London. 1833. were to procure stools to be melancholy upon, and were to sit down with all the pre meditation To chat with bluestockings; to write little copies of complimentary verses on little occasions ; to... | |
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The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. Serious business was a trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business. 
