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" The Bar: pooh! 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... "
Lord Beaconsfield: A Biography - Side 10
av Thomas Power O'Connor - 1880 - 292 sider
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Vivian Grey

Benjamin Disraeli - 1853 - 508 sider
...his ambition, 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...
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Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, a biography 2 vols, Volum 1

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 792 sider
...tongue which was born to guide human beings. The idea of Oxford to such an individual was an insult." Communing with himself as to how " he could obtain...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...
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Wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, collected from his writings and speeches

Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 410 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...
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An appreciative life of ... the earl of Beaconsfield, ed ..., Volum 1;Volum 346

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...
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Lord Beaconsfield

James Anthony Froude - 1890 - 290 sider
...momentous subject are not likely to have been much caricatured in the meditations of Vivian Grey. ' The Bar ! — pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are...lawyer, and to be a great lawyer I must give up my chances of being a great man. The " services " in war time are fit only for desperadoes (and that truly...
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Queen's Quarterly, Volum 18

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...
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Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography

Wilfrid Meynell - 1903 - 640 sider
...professors call it, in his mind, and was not innocent of a fling at his uncle, when he wrote in Vivian Grey: "The Bar — pooh! Law and bad jokes till we are forty;...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...
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volum 3

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...
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The Works of Benjamin Disraeli: Endymion, v. 2

Benjamin Disraeli - 1904 - 440 sider
...Men destined to the highest places should beware of badinage. — ('Bertie Tremaine') Endymion. BAR. The Bar — pooh! Law and bad jokes till we are forty;...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....
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Beaconsfield

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...
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