 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1911 - 514 páginas
...as a beast, was apparently influenced by their vilest passions. Mankind, then, is my great game. ' At this moment, how many a powerful noble wants only...old chateau ? Supposing I am in contact with this magmfico, am I prepared ? Now, let me probe my very soul. Does my cheek blanch ? I have the mind for... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1913 - 512 páginas
...(1826) Disraeli foreshadowed the future with prophetic accuracy. " At this moment," exclaims the hero, " how many a powerful noble wants only wit to be a Minister...pass my life a moping misanthrope in an old chateau ?" Assuredly there was little of the " moping misanthrope " about Disraeli. Into the years between... | |
 | 1920 - 530 páginas
...vuur en helderheid dan de edelman zelf ooit zou vermogen. „At this moment", zoo peinst Vivian Grey, „how many a powerful noble wants only wit to be...Grey to attain the same end? That noble's influence ..." En op een andere plaats: .Yes! we must mix with the herd; we must enter inio their feelings; we... | |
 | André Maurois - 1928 - 424 páginas
...longings to be a great orator. The first article of Vivian Grey's political reasoning was the following: "At this moment, how many a powerful noble wants only...assist each other, why are they not brought together?" Deliberately he set out to discover a powerful and stupid nobleman and then to undertake his conquest... | |
 | 1868 - 718 páginas
...the possession of a little rascal blood, should mar my fortunes ! " And so he arrives at the thought, "At this moment, how many a powerful noble wants only...Grey' to attain the same end? That noble's influence." Then follows the picture of the nobleman, upon whose back Vivian, having caught him, saddles the pack... | |
 | 1905 - 816 páginas
...Minister ; and what wants Yivian Grey to attain the same end ? That noble's influence. When two people can so materially assist each other, why are they...together ? Shall I, because my birth baulks my fancy, pass my life a moping misanthrope in an old chateau ? Now let me probe myself. Does my cheek blench... | |
 | 1881 - 784 páginas
...game. At this moment how many (JUEEN YICTURIA AT IIUQUENDEN. a powerful noble only wants wit to bo a Minister ; and what wants Vivian Grey to attain the same end ? That noble'a influence. When two people can so materially assist each other, why are they not brought together... | |
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At this moment, how many a powerful noble wants only wit to be a Minister; and what wants Vivian Grey to attain the same end ? That noble's influence. 
