 | Isaac Disraeli - 1794 - 478 pagine
...I am not ferious; I aflure you I h.ave known feveral of thefeprvteges of a minifter, who, at firft had only a falary of fix thoufand livres, and who...peace took place at this moment, my principal would be ruinedj and I too. We have all our. fortune in America, and we wait for it with impatience." *' This... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 464 pagine
...lords of two or three manors. One of the chief clerks of a French mercantile house was heard to remark, in November, 1777 : If peace took place at this moment,...America, and we wait for it with impatience. This is the reason for which the king has not yet declared for the Americans ; he will only do this when the ships... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1868 - 906 pagine
...lords of two or three manors. One of the chief clerks of a French mercantile house was heard to remark, in November, 1777 : If peace took place at this moment,...America, and we wait for it with impatience. This is the reason for which the king has not yet declared for the Americans; he will only do this when the shipt... | |
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... proteges, who were known to have had at first only a salary of six thousand livres, afterward enjoyed, by these commercial operations priced with blood, an income of one hundred thousand, and became lords of two or three manors. One of the chief clerks... 