 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 266 էջ
...her son ; and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best; he worked according to his lights ; what virtue he knew...what knowledge he could master he strove to acquire. He was forever drawing maps, for example, and learned geography with no small care and industry. He... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 էջ
...son : and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best ; he worked according to his lights ; what virtue he knew, he tried to practise ; what knowledge he could master, he strove to acquire. He was for ever drawing maps, for... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 էջ
...her son; and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best—he worked according to his lights: what virtue he knew, he tried to practise; what knowledge he could master, he strove to acquire But, as one thinks of an office almost... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1862 - 264 էջ
...her son : and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best; he worked according to his lights ; what virtue he knew, he tried to practise ; what knowledge he could master, he strove to acquire. He was for ever drawing maps, for... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1863 - 716 էջ
...written. Of no other George, of few other kings, could thus much be said : — ' He did his best ; he worked according to his lights ; what virtue he knew he tried to practise; what knowledge he could master he strove to acqiure. . . . The heart of Britain still beats... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 էջ
...son : and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best ; he worked according to his lights ; what virtue he knew, he tried to practise ; what knowledge he could master, he strove to acquire. He was for ever drawing maps, for... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 էջ
...son : and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best ; he worked according to his lights ; what virtue he knew, he tried to practise ; what knowledge he could master, he strove to acquire. He was for ever drawing maps, for... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 էջ
...son : and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best ; he worked according to his lights ; what virtue he knew, he tried to practise ; what knowledge he could master, he strove to acquire. He was for ever drawing maps, for... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 էջ
...son ; and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best — he worked according to his lights : what virtue he knew, he tried to practise ; what knowledge he could master, he strove to acquire But, as one thinks of an office almost... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 էջ
...son : and a king the simple, stubborn, affectionate, bigoted man tried to be. He did his best ; he worked according to his lights ; what virtue he knew, he tried to practise ; what knowledge he could master, he strove to acquire. He was for ever drawing maps, for... | |
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He was for ever drawing maps, for example, and learned geography with no small care and industry. He knew all about the family histories and genealogies of his gentry, and pretty histories he must have known. He knew the whole Army... 
