 | 1880 - 850 Seiten
...POPULATION! AT the commencement of his pleasant history, the Vicar of Wakefield confidently gives it as his opinion, that 'the honest man who married and brought...who continued single and only talked of population.' Accordingly, to make good his word, the Vicar married, and in due course of time was blessed with a... | |
 | 1883 - 502 Seiten
...opening paragraph of Goldsmith's model tale, the Vicar of Wakefield declares that he '• was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought...service than he who continued single and only talked of a population." So, seven years ago, when the authorities of Hahnemann Hospital raised its clinics to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 Seiten
...The Description of the Family of Wakefield, in vlhich a hindred L ikeness prevails, as welt of Minds as of Persons. I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest...only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife, as she... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 500 Seiten
...THE DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMILY OF WAKEFIELD. IX WHICH A KINDEED LIKENESS PREVAILS, A8 WELL OF MINDS AS OF PERSONS. I WAS ever of opinion that the honest...only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife, as she... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - 1912 - 368 Seiten
...2. In the following sentences insert the commas and semicolons where you think they belong: — 1. I had scarcely taken orders a year before I began...seriously of matrimony and chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown not for a fine glossy surface but for such qualities as would wear well. To do her justice... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 Seiten
...sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn. OLIVER GOLDSMITH0 THE VICAR AND HIS FAMILY I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married...to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife, 5 as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would wear... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 Seiten
...hands his shilling's worth of matches. THE FAMILY OF WAKEFIELD (From The Vicar of Wakefcld, Chap. I.) I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married,...only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year, before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife, as she... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 Seiten
...difficulty — a pipe is man's eternal solace. KATH. CECIL THURSTON , John Chilcote, MP, Ch. XII, 130. II. I was ever of opinion that the honest man who married...who continued single, and only talked of population. GOLDSMITH, Vicar, Ch. I. Old and broken-down as he (sc. the horse) looked, there was more of the lurking... | |
 | Juvenal - 1914 - 644 Seiten
...antiquity, that to add to the population is a service to the state, cf. The Vicar of Wakefeltl, chap. I. ' I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married...brought up a large family, did more service than he DJ 27 who continued single and only talked of population. ...I considered them (my children) as a very... | |
 | Prussia (Germany) Statistisches Landesamt - 1915 - 420 Seiten
...ähnliche Geil.'i.'k' n mögen dem wackeren Virar of Wakelicld vorgeschwebt haben, als er sagte: »I am ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and...service than he who continued single and only talked of population.«Der Acker- mid Häuserbau und der Grundcredit. Eine der wichtigsten Kragen der Gegenwart... | |
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I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population. 
