 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 336 pages
...in the year 1715, entitled, "• An Inquiry into the Behaviour of the Queen's last Ministry, &c." " It happens to very few men, in any age or country, to come into the world vvith so many advantages of nature and fortune, as the late secretary Bolingbroke : descended from... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 546 pages
...all, within the compass of a year, accused of high treason, he thus characterises lord Bolingbroke : " It happens to very few men, in any age or country, to come into the wOrld with so many advantages of nature and fortune, as the late secretary Bolingbroke : descended from the best... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount), Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 486 pages
...all, within the compass of a year, accused of high treason, he thus characterises lord Bolingbroke : " It happens to very few men, in any age or country, to come into the work) with so many advantages of nature and fortune, as the late secretary Bolingbroke : descended... | |
 | 1835 - 746 pages
...recal to mind the portrait which he has left of his illustrious friend. " It happens," f he says, " to very few men in any age or country to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune as the late Secretary Bolingbroke ; descended from the best... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 520 pages
...of the man, the minister, and the orator, as given by his friend Swift, in the following language: " It happens to very few men in any age or country to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune as the late secretary Bolingbroke: descended from the best... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 526 pages
...of the man, the minister, and the orator, as given by his friend Swift, in the following language: " It happens to very few men in any age or country to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune as the late secretary Bolingbroke: descended from the best... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 680 pages
...world passeth away. Having already said something of the duke of Ormond, I shall add a little toward the characters of the other two. It happens to very...in any age or country, to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune as the late secretary Bolingbroke : descended from the best... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 pages
...fashion of t3t.it world passeth atcay. Having already said something of the duke of Ormond, I shall odd a little towards the characters of the other two....in any age or country, to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune, as the late secretary Bolingbroke ; descended from the best... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 472 pages
...world passeth away. Having already said something of the Duke of Ormond, I shall add a little toward the characters of the other two. It happens to very...in any age or country, to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune as the late Secretary Bolingbroke : descended from the best... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 472 pages
...world passeth away. Having already said something of the Duke of Ormond, I shall add a little toward the characters of the other two. It happens to very...in any age or country, to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune as the late Secretary Bolingbroke: descended from the best... | |
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It happens to very few men, in any age or country, to come into the world with so many advantages of nature and fortune, as the late Secretary Bolingbroke : Descended from the best families in England, heir to a great patrimonial estate, of a sound constitution,... 
