ISBN: 9780217301190

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... three years, and yet am content with and enjoy it--a very uncommon case in a country where nobody is pleased but while they are improving, and where they are tired the moment they have done. I choose my house should enjoy itself, which poor houses and gardens seldom do, for people go on mending till they die, and the next comer, who likes to improve too, begins to mend all that has been done. I knew what I wished; I have it, and am satisfied--and yet do not forget that I am one of my contemporaries! I have all my life been blessed with knowing my own mind. I never wished to be anybody, that is, anything; and when the moments have arrived in which I might have been what I pleased, I resisted them, and persisted in my nothinghood. I hated Parliament, resolved to quit it, and did: was told I should repent, but never have. There ends my panegyric on myself; and pray don''t think it very high flown, when the sum of all is, that I am content with a small house and garden, and with being nobody. LETTER CCXXXIV. Strawberry Hill, May 17, 1775. If you could not help writing, my dear sir, to tell me of your nephew''s arrival, I can as little help wishing you joy of it, though I wrote to you but last week. I told you how pleased and charmed you would be with him; and you must allow I am a good judge of the harmony of such natures as yours and his. Keep him as long as you can, and may the pure air of Florence restore Lady Lucy''s health! I have nothing of news to add to my last. The Ministers are easy about the Spanish fleet. For France, she has business of her own. There have been great tumults even in Paris on the dearness of corn. The King is already angry with his restored Parliaments who, fancying itself restored to liberty, took upon itself to... Horace Walpole, Books, History, Letters Of Horace Walpole, Earl Of Orford, To Sir Horace Mann; His Britannic Majesty's Resident At The Court Of Florence, Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217301190

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... three years, and yet am content with and enjoy it--a very uncommon case in a country where nobody is pleased but while they are improving, and where they are tired the moment they have done. I choose my house should enjoy itself, which poor houses and gardens seldom do, for people go on mending till they die, and the next comer, who likes to improve too, begins to mend all that has been done. I knew what I wished; I have it, and am satisfied--and yet do not forget that I am one of my contemporaries! I have all my life been blessed with knowing my own mind. I never wished to be anybody, that is, anything; and when the moments have arrived in which I might have been what I pleased, I resisted them, and persisted in my nothinghood. I hated Parliament, resolved to quit it, and did: was told I should repent, but never have. There ends my panegyric on myself; and pray don''t think it very high flown, when the sum of all is, that I am content with a small house and garden, and with being nobody. LETTER CCXXXIV. Strawberry Hill, May 17, 1775. If you could not help writing, my dear sir, to tell me of your nephew''s arrival, I can as little help wishing you joy of it, though I wrote to you but last week. I told you how pleased and charmed you would be with him; and you must allow I am a good judge of the harmony of such natures as yours and his. Keep him as long as you can, and may the pure air of Florence restore Lady Lucy''s health! I have nothing of news to add to my last. The Ministers are easy about the Spanish fleet. For France, she has business of her own. There have been great tumults even in Paris on the dearness of corn. The King is already angry with his restored Parliaments who, fancying itself restored to liberty, took upon itself to... Horace Walpole, Books, History, Letters Of Horace Walpole, Earl Of Orford, To Sir Horace Mann; His Britannic Majesty's Resident At The Court Of Florence, Books>History <

ISBN: 9780217301190

Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford To Sir Horace Mann Vol. 2 His Britannic Majesty's Resident at the Court of Florence From 1760 to 1785 Author :Horace Walpole 9780217301190 0217301193