 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 стор.
...words, to become a barrister, and pursue the track of ambition. Their advice in truth was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the...have somewhat more of public business in it. But if ever it should be my fortune to have any share in administration, you shall be my Atticus, the partner... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 470 стор.
...advice in truth was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the higheft ftations in this country is that of the law, and I need not...then become a lawyer, and. expect in future, that my correfpondence will have fomewhat more of public bufinefs in it. .But if it ever fhould be my fortune... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 452 стор.
...advice in truth was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the higheft ftations in this country is that of the law, and I need not...then become a lawyer, and expect in future, that my correfponclence will have fomewhat more of public bufmefs in it. But if it ever mould be my fortune... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 стор.
...advice in truth was conformable to tuy own inclinations ; for the only road to the highest station in this country is that of the law ; and I need not add, how amhitious and laborious I am. Behold me then become a lawyer, and expect in future, that my correspondence... | |
 | 1821 - 360 стор.
...words, to become a barrister, and pursue the track of ambition. Their advice, in truth, was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the...highest stations in this country is that of the law ; • Written in Latin. and I need not add, how ambitious and laborious I am. Behold me then become... | |
 | 1825 - 312 стор.
...words, to become a Barrister, and pursue the track of ambition. Their advice, in truth, was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the...I need not add how ambitious and laborious I am." In another letter, written in the same year, (1771,) addressed to Mr. Wilmot, we trace the progress... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 554 стор.
...words, to become a barrister, and pursue the track of ambition. Their advice, in truth, was conformable to my own inclinations ; for the only road to the...I need not add how ambitious and laborious I am." In another letter, written soon afterwards, and addressed to his friend Mr. Wilmot, the son of the... | |
 | 1834 - 602 стор.
...to my own inclinations; for the only road to the night st stations in this country, is that of riie law; and I need not add how ambitious and laborious I am." The mode in which he occupied himself in chambers is best described by his own pen, in a letter to... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 стор.
...was conformable to his own inclinations ; " for," says he, " the only road to the highest stations iu this country is that of the law, and I need not add how ambitious and laborious I am." In the summer of 1771 we find him commencing the perusal of Blackstone's Commentaries, and expressing... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 стор.
...his friend, Count Keviezki, that the ndviee was conformable to his own inclinations; "for," says he, "the only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law, and 1 need not add how ambitious and laborious I am." In the summer of 1771 we find him commencing the... | |
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My friends, companions, relations, all attacked me with urgent solicitations to banish poetry and Oriental literature for a time, and apply myself to oratory and the study of the law ; in other words, to become a barrister, and pursue the track of ambition.... 
