 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 608 sider
...greatest distress, to award it to him, and therefore he ends, " If you should adjudge the deposit to me, I shall consider it as the most honourable approbation...labours ; and I wish to owe my fortune to your bounty. 1 am now in the fiftieth year of my life : I have passed thirty-one years in the service of the company,... | |
 | Peter Auber - 1837 - 762 sider
...Court. If you shall adjudge the disposal to me, I shall consider it as the most honourable apportionment and reward of my labours, and I wish to owe my fortune to your bounty. I am now in my fiftieth year : I have passed thirty-one years in your service. My conscience allows me boldly to... | |
 | Peter Auber - 1837 - 750 sider
...I f you shall adjudge the disposal to me, 1 shall consider it as the most honourable apportionment and reward of my labours, and I wish to owe my fortune to your bounty. I am now in my fiftieth year : I have passed thirty-one years in your service. My conscience allows me boldly to... | |
 | Edward Thornton - 1842 - 632 sider
...support of the request, coolly added, " If you shall adjudge the deposit to me, I shall consider it the most honourable approbation and reward of my labours, and I wish to owe my fortune to your bounty." The gift CHAP. xil. of a hundred thousand pounds has not often been asked with so little ceremony.*... | |
 | Francis Rawdon-Hastings Marquess of Hastings - 1857 - 522 sider
...greatest distress, to award it to him, and therefore he ends, " If you should adjudge the deposit to me, I shall consider it as the most honourable approbation...now in the fiftieth year of my life : I have passed thirtyme years in the service of the Company, and the greatest >art of that time in employments of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1867 - 474 sider
...adjudge the deposit to me, I shall consider it as the most honorable approbation and reward of my labors: and I wish to owe my fortune to your bounty. I am now in the fiftieth year of my life: 1 have passed thirty-one years in the service of the Company, and the greatest part of that time in... | |
 | James Grant - 1876 - 602 sider
...court If you shall adjudge the disposal to me, I shall consider it as the most honourable appointment and reward of my labours, and I wish to owe my fortune to your bounty. I am now in my fiftieth year ; I have passed thirtyone years in your sen-ice. My conscience allows me boldly to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 470 sider
...the deposit to me, I shall consider it as the most honorable approbation and reward of my labors : and I wish to owe my fortune to your bounty. I am now in the fiftieth year of my life : 1 have passed thirty-one years in the service of the Company, and the greatest part of that time... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 994 sider
...court. If you shall adjudge the disposal to me, I shall consider it as the most honourable apportionment and reward of my labours, and I wish to owe my fortune to your bounty. I am now in my fiftieth year : I have passed thirtyone years in your service. My conscience allows me boldly to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 550 sider
...greatest distress, to award it to him, and therefore he ends, "If you should adjudge the deposit to me, I shall consider it as the most honourable approbation...now in the fiftieth year of my life : I have passed thirty one years in the service of the Company, and the greatest part of that time in employments of... | |
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I have passed thirty one years in the service of the Company, and the greatest part of that time in employments of the highest trust. — My conscience allows me boldly to claim the merit of zeal and integrity ; nor has fortune been unpropitious to their... 
