 The reasons you have given me for breeding up your son as a scholar are judicious and convincing; I should, however, be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous and divested of strong passions (for passions in youth...  Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography - Page 118by Washington Irving - 1854 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1801 - 424 pages
...lead to pleafure) he may do very well in your college ; for it muft be owned, that the induftrious poor have good encouragement there, perhaps better...than in any other in Europe. But if he has ambition, ftrong paffions, and an exquifite fenfibility of contempt, do not fend him there, unlefs you have no... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 304 pages
...should, however, be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous, and divested of strong passions, (for passions in...him there, unless you have no other trade for him except your own. It is impossible to conceive how much may be done' by a proper * This is all gratit... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 568 pages
...should, however, be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous, and divested of strong passions (for passions in youth...well in your college ; for it must be owned, that the intlustrious poor have good encouragement there, perhaps better than in any other in Europe. But if... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 pages
...1 should however be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous, and divested of strong passions, (for passions in...to pleasure) he may do very well in your college; tor it must be owned, that the industrious poor have good encouragement there, perhaps better than... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...should, however, be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous, and divested of strong passions, (for passions in...him there, unless you have no other trade. for him except your own. It is impossible to conceive how much may be done by a proper education at home. A... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...Literature In EurojK," sub•ipliun |u¡«, us. ticular profession he U designed. If he be assidu. ous, that mocks me with collège; for it must be owned, that the industrious poor have good encouragement there, perhaps better... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...I should however be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous and divested of strong passions (for passions in youth...him there, unless you have no other trade for him except your own." At present, students of this description have no just cause for complaint in Dublin.... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...I should however be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous and divested of strong passions (for passions in youth...him there, unless you have no other trade for him except your own." At present, students of this description have no just cause for complaint in Dublin.... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...should, however, be glad to know for what ' particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous, and ' divested of strong passions (for passions in...ambition, strong passions, and an exquisite sensibility of con' tempt, do not send him there, unless you have no other trade ' for him except your own.' Did he... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 pages
...should, however, be glad to know for what particular profession he is designed. If he be assiduous and divested of strong passions (for passions in youth...than in any other in Europe. But if he has ambition, • The Inquiry into Polite Literature. His previous remarks apply to the subscription. strong passions,... | |
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