| Thomas Lister Ribblesdale (4th Baron) - 1897 - 398 páginas
...in politics. All these things contributed to make up a valuable and respectable citizen. Moreover, the even and deserved prosperity of his career, his...easily have induced a certain semi-royal aloofness. I feel confident that he was never in anything like a scrape — this is of itself quite a misfortune... | |
| 1898 - 950 páginas
...Whigs in politics. All these things contributed to make up a valuable and respected citizen. Moreover, the even and deserved prosperity of his career, his...easily have induced a certain semi-royal aloofness. . . . We might have asked him to stand godfather to our first-born, or act as trustee to our marriage... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 524 páginas
...in politics. All these things contributed to make up a valuable and respectable citizen. Moreover, the even and deserved prosperity of his career, his...easily have induced a certain semi-royal aloofness. I feel confident that he was never in anything like a scrape — this is of itself quite a misfortune... | |
| Sir Walter Gilbey - 1900 - 396 páginas
...one another ; they were too utterly unlike to have much in common. Charles Davis's staid character, the "even and deserved prosperity of his career, his...easily have induced a certain semi-royal aloofness," to quote from Lord Ribblesdale's excellent account of him. Richard Davis on the other hand was careless... | |
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