 | 1832 - 592 páginas
...following terms, to William the Third: " Sire, I have Drought a mouse to wait on your majesty ;" the king replied, " You do well to put me in the way of making a man of him ;" and immediately granted him a pension of .£¿00 per annum! SEYMOUR, (CHARLES, sixth Duke of Somerset,)... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 páginas
...terms, to William the Third : — " Sire, I have brought a mouse to wait on your majesty ;" the king replied, " You do well to put me in the way of making a man of him," and immediately granted him a pension of £500 per annum I BOaN AD 1650. — DIED AD 1716. JOHN SOMERS... | |
 | 1852 - 670 páginas
...to wait on your majesty;" in allusion to the burlesque he wrote in conjunc-tion with Prior. The king replied, " You do well to put me in the way of making a man of him; " and immediately ordered him a pension of £500 a year. This story, ae Dr. Johnson observes, however current,... | |
 | 1839 - 674 páginas
...in allusion to the burlesque he wrote in conjunction with Prior. The king replied, "You do well i" put me in the way of making a man of him; " and immediately ordered him a pension of £500 a year. This story, as Dr. Johnson observes, however current,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...this expression : * Sir, I have brought a Mouse to wait on your Majesty.' To which the king is said to have replied, ( You do well to put me in the way of making a Man of him ;' and ordered hint a pension of five hundred pounds. This story, however current, seems lo have been made after the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 páginas
...expression : — "Sir, I have brought a mouse to wait on your Majesty." To which the King is said to nave then take different courses. HU play pleased the critics, and the critics only. It was, pension of five hundred pound?. This story, however current, seems to have been made after the «vent.... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1840 - 646 páginas
...him to the king, saying, " Sire, 1 have л mouse to wait on your majesty." To which the king is said to have replied, " You do well to put me in the way of making a man of him." In 1691, being a member of the house of commons, he argued warmly in favour of a law to grant the assistance... | |
 | 1854 - 686 páginas
...smiled, and having learned the reason why Mr. Montague received the name, he gaily replied, " You will do well to put me in the way of making a man of him," and he immediately gave orders that a pension of £500 per annum should be allowed him out of the Privy... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 páginas
...Montague's being so called from the parody above-mentioned, he replied, with an air of gaiety, ' You will do well to put me in the way of making a man of him,' and ordered him an immediate pension of 500/. per annum out of the privy purse, till an opportunity should offer of... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 páginas
...Montague's being so called from the parody above-mentioned, he replied, with an air of gaiety, ' You will do well to put me in the way of making a man of him,' and ordered him an immediate pension of 500/. per annum out of the privy purse, till an opportunity should offer of... | |
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To which the King is said to have replied, " You do well to put me in the way of making a man of him ;" and ordered him a pension of five hundred pounds. 
