 And if they take my salaries of £1300 and £300, they cannot but give me something out of them. I have been rash in anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from £5000 to £10,000 a year, and land was my temptation.  The Scottish Review - Page 2451894Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Authors, Scottish - 1890 - 460 pages
...I suppose it will involve my all. But if they leave me £500, 1 can still make it £1000 or £1200 a year. And if they take my salaries of £1300 and...anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from £5000 to £10,000 a year, and land was my 1 The Right Hon. Sir Samuel where he died, aged SO, on the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1890 - 590 pages
...follow, and I most go with poor James Eallantyne for company. I suppose it will involve my all. ... I have been rash in anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from 50001. to 10,OOO7. a year, and land was my temptation. I think nobody can lose a penny — that is... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...follow, and I mast go with poor James Ballantyne for company. I suppose it will involve my all. ... I have been rash in anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from 5000/. to 10,000/. a year, and land was my temptation. I think nobody can lose a penny — that is... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, Scottish - 1891 - 640 pages
...leave me £500, I can still make it £1000 or £1200 a year. And if they take my salaries of £1HOO and £300, they cannot but give me something out of...anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from £5000 to £10,000 a year, and land was my temptation. I think nobody can lose a penny — that is... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1895 - 614 pages
...I suppose it will involve my all. But if they leave me £500, 1 can still make it £1000 or £1200 a year. And if they take my salaries of £1300 and...anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from £5000 to £10,000 a year, and land was my temptation. I think nobody can lose a penny,5 that is one... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 622 pages
...I suppose it will involve my all. But if they leave me £500, I can still make it £1000 or £1200 a year. And if they take my salaries of £1300 and...anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from £5000 to £10,000 a year, and land was my temptation. I think uobody can lose a penny — that is... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 332 pages
...suppose it will involve my all. But if they still leave me .£500, I can still make it £1000 or .£1200 a year. And if they take my salaries of £1300 and...anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from ^5000 to ,£10,000 a year, and land was my temptation. I think nobody can lose a penny ; that is one... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - California - 1903 - 320 pages
...me .£500, I can still make it ,£1,000 or ,£1,200 a year. And if they take my salaries of ^1,300 and ,£300, they cannot but give me something out...been rash in anticipating funds to buy land, but then 1 made from ,£5,000 to ^10,000 a year, and land was my temptation. I think nobody can lose a penny—that... | |
 | Gerald Le Grys Norgate - Authors, Scottish - 1906 - 428 pages
...that the coming failure of Constable and his agents "will involve myall." He confesses that he has been rash in anticipating funds to buy land — "...to .£10,000 a year, and land was my temptation." He does not nourish the least hope of preserving Abbotsford, " my Delilah," which he has half-resolved... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1927 - 968 pages
...I suppose it will involve my all. But if they leave me £500, I can still make it £1000 or £1200 a year. And if they take my salaries of £1300 and...anticipating funds to buy land, but then I made from £5000 to £10,000 a year, and land was my 1 Tlie Right Hon. Sir Samuel where he died, aged SO, on... | |
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