Bar, pooh 1 law and bad jokes till we are forty; and then, with the most brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. Besides, to succeed as an advocate, I must be a great lawyer; and to be a great lawyer, I must give up my chance of being a... Lord Beaconsfield: A Biography - Side 29av Thomas Power O'Connor - 1879 - 711 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1853 - 508 sider
...he stopped one day to enquire in what manner he could obtain his magnificent ends. ' The Bar: pooh! law and bad jokes till we are forty; and then, with the moat brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. Besides, to succeed as an advocate, I must... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 792 sider
...himself as to how " he could obtain his magnificent ends/' Vivian Grey thus speaks: "The Bar, pooh! law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with...I must be a great lawyer, and to be a great lawyer 1 must give up my chance of being a great man. The Services in 44 war time are fit only for desperadoes... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 408 sider
...the House of Commons (Vote of Thanks to the Allied Armies), December 15, 1855. BAR. The Bar—pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are forty ; and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet.— Vivian Grey. BARONETCY. A baronetcy has become a distinction of the middle class : our physician, for... | |
| Cornelius Brown - 1881 - 440 sider
...ponders on his future career, and thus estimates the paths to fame open to him : ' The Bar — pish ! law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. . . . The Services in war time are only fit for desperadoes (and that truly am I), but in peace they... | |
| 1911 - 400 sider
...adventurers in the country they ruled! tQuoted in Mr. Sichel's " Disraeli " from Grant Duff's Diaries. we are forty; and then with the most brilliant success,...lawyer, I must give up my chance of being a great man." But nothing debarred a statesman from being a great man, and nothing stood between Disraeli's imagination... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 sider
...must discover a profession which brought fame to the adventurous. The Bar was little to his mind. ' s y said Vivian Grey, speaking for his author, ' to be a great lawyer I must give up my chances of being... | |
| Wilfrid Meynell - 1903 - 734 sider
...mind, and was not innocent of a fling at his uncle, when he wrote in Vir'mn Grey: "The Bar — pooh! Law and bad jokes till we are forty; and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet." An early acquaintance formed during his stay at Gibraltar in 1830 afforded him another expression of... | |
| Walter Sichel - 1904 - 258 sider
...was "entered" at Lincoln's Inn, but the Bar never attracted. " Pooh ! " as he laughed in Vivian Grey, "law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet ! " He panted for action. Already in his boyish musings over the pages of Bolingbroke, and of that... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1904 - 440 sider
...highest places should beware of badinage. — ('Bertie Tremaine') Endymion. BAR. The Bar — pooh! Law and bad jokes till we are forty; and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. — Vivian Grey. BARONETCY. and I dare say some of our tradesmen — brewers or people of that sort.... | |
| Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1905 - 346 sider
...law. Another great author expressed a very similar opinion of this profession. " The Bar — pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then with...brilliant success the prospect of gout and a coronet," said Benjamin Disraeli. " Besides, to succeed as an advocate I must be a great lawyer, and to be a... | |
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