 Every day when he looked into the glass, and gave the last touch to his consummate toilette, he offered his grateful thanks to Providence that his family was not unworthy of him.  Punch - Strana 16upravili: - 1905Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 876 str.
...comically accurate. The Duke, who ' every day, when he gave the last touch to his consummate toilet, offered his grateful thanks to Providence that his family was not unworthy of him,' was the first Duke of Abercorn, whom Disraeli had just raised to the highest order of the peerage.... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 324 str.
...wanting in his public place , and he was fond of his wife and his children; still more proud of them. Every day when he looked into the glass, and gave...Providence that his family was not unworthy of him. His Grace was accustomed to say that he had only one misfortune, and it was a great one; he had no... | |
 | 1870 - 880 str.
...was like we may partly guess from that remarkable nobleman's own estimate of himself and of them : " Every day when he looked into the glass, and gave...Providence that his family was not unworthy of him." The first time that Lothair hears Corisande sing, he thus accosts that siren : — " ' Your singing,'... | |
 | 1870 - 844 str.
...remarkable nobleman's own estimate of himself and of them : " Every day when he looked into the glats, and gave the last touch to his consummate toilette,...Providence that his family was not unworthy of him." The first time that Lothair hears Corisande sing, he thus accosts that siren : — - ' Toor singing,'... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 396 str.
...wanting in his public place, and he was fond of his wife- and his children ; still more, proud of them. Every day when he looked into the glass, and gave the last touch to his consummate toilet, he offered his grateful thanks to Providence that his family was not unworthy of him. His grace... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 394 str.
...of them. Every day when he looked into the glass, and gave the last touch to his consummate toilet, he offered his grateful thanks to Providence that his family was not unworthy of him. His grace was accustomed to say that he had only one misfortune, and it was a great one; he had no... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 528 str.
...wanting in his public place, and he was fond of his wife and his children ; still more proud of them. Every day when he looked into the glass, and gave...Providence that his family was not unworthy of him. misfortune, and it was a great one ; he had no home. His family had married so many heiresses, and... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 516 str.
...was fond of his wife and his children ; still more proud of them. Every day when he looked into tho glass, and gave the last touch to his consummate toilette,...Providence that his family was not unworthy of him. His Grace was accustomed to say that he had only one misfortune, and it was a great one ; he had no... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1902 - 666 str.
...and wellmeaning. The duke is painfully conscious of what he owes to his family and his position — " every day when he looked into the glass, and gave...his grateful thanks to Providence that his family were not unworthy of him." St. Aldegonde is versatile and attractive, but is in perpetual fear of being... | |
 | Sir Henry John Wrixon - 1903 - 508 str.
...look at how he writes about them in his novels. Read his account of the Duke of Brentham in Lothair. " Every day, when he looked into the glass and gave...his grateful thanks to Providence that his family were not unworthy of him." Just fancy talking that way of a human being ! I've never forgotten the... | |
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