 About seven months ago, I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family, consisting of a head, viz., myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps me company. With frugality, I can reach, I find,...  Lives of Men of Letters & Science: Who Flourished in the Time of George III. - Page 236by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 516 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 pages
...and probably since. To the same gentleman he afterwards says of his circumstances. "With frngalily I can reach, I find, cleanliness, warmth, light, plenty,...the indispensable requisites of life. Books '. that u one of them ; and I have more than I can use. With these happy and unaffected practical principles... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 822 pages
...and probably since. To the same gentleman he afterwards says of his circumstances. " With frugalily I can reach, I find, cleanliness, warmth, light, plenty,...the indispensable requisites of life. Books ? that ¿я one of them ; and I have more than I can use. With these happy and unaffected practical principles... | |
 | 1846 - 636 pages
...plenty, and contentment. What would you have mure! Independence? I have it in a supreme degree. Honor? that is not altogether wanting. Grace? that will come...that is none of the indispensable requisites of life. Bunks ? that is one of them ; and I have more than I can use. In short, 1 cannot finJ any blessin?... | |
 | 1846 - 614 pages
...seven months ago I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family ; consisting of a head, viz., myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps me coni* A privileged body of street porters — amusingly described in ' Humphry Clinker." pany. pany.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1846 - 606 pages
...ago I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family ; consisting of a head, viz., myself, aud two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps me com* A privileged body of ttreet porten — amusingly dc»cribed in ' Humphry Clinker.' jinny. With... | |
 | 1846 - 910 pages
...seven months ago I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family; consisting of a head, namely, myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has siuce joined me, and keeps me company. With frugality I can reach, I find, cleanliness, warmth, light,... | |
 | 1846 - 604 pages
...and completed a regular family ; consisting of a head, viz., myself, and two inferior members, a naid and a cat. My sister has since joined me, and keeps me com• A privileged body of street porters — amusingly described in ' Humphry Clinker.' pany. With... | |
 | 1847 - 576 pages
...seven months ago, I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family, consisting of a head, viz., myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat....the indispensable requisites of life. Books? that « one of them ; and I have more than I can use. In short, I cannot find any blessing of consequence... | |
 | Eugene Lawrence - 1855 - 390 pages
...seven months ago I got a house of my own, and completed a regular family ; consisting of a head, viz. : myself and two inferior members, a maid and a cat....Independence ? — I have it in a supreme degree. Honor? — that is not altogether wanting. Grace ? — that will come in time. A wife ? — that is... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - 1880 - 398 pages
..."completed," says he, in a letter written about this time, " a regular family; consisting of a head, namely, myself, and two inferior members, a maid and a cat. My sister has . . . joined me, and keeps me company." Hume continues, characteristically : " With frugality I can... | |
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