...his ambition, he stopped one day to enquire in what manner he could obtain his magnificent ends. ' The Bar: pooh! law and bad jokes till we are forty; and then, with the moat brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. Besides, to succeed as an advocate, I must...

...education, had all the desires of a matured mind He was already " — at nineteen ! — " a cunning reader of human hearts, and felt conscious that his...I must be a great lawyer, and to be a great lawyer 1 must give up my chance of being a great man. The Services in 44 war time are fit only for desperadoes...

...the House of Commons (Vote of Thanks to the Allied Armies), December 15, 1855. BAR. The Bar—pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are forty ; and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet.— Vivian Grey. BARONETCY. A baronetcy has become a distinction of the middle class : our physician, for...

...ponders on his future career, and thus estimates the paths to fame open to him : ' The Bar — pish ! law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. . . . The Services in war time are only fit for desperadoes (and that truly am I), but in peace they...

...momentous subject are not likely to have been much caricatured in the meditations of Vivian Grey. ' The Bar ! — pooh ! Law and bad jokes till we are...lawyer, and to be a great lawyer I must give up my chances of being a great man. The " services " in war time are fit only for desperadoes (and that truly...

...adventurers in the country they ruled! tQuoted in Mr. Sichel's " Disraeli " from Grant Duff's Diaries. we are forty; and then with the most brilliant success,...lawyer, I must give up my chance of being a great man." But nothing debarred a statesman from being a great man, and nothing stood between Disraeli's imagination...

...professors call it, in his mind, and was not innocent of a fling at his uncle, when he wrote in Vivian Grey: "The Bar — pooh! Law and bad jokes till we are forty;...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet." An early acquaintance formed during his stay at Gibraltar in 1830 afforded him another expression of...

...must discover a profession which brought fame to the adventurous. The Bar was little to his mind. ' s y said Vivian Grey, speaking for his author, ' to be a great lawyer I must give up my chances of being...

...Men destined to the highest places should beware of badinage. — ('Bertie Tremaine') Endymion. BAR. The Bar — pooh! Law and bad jokes till we are forty;...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. — Vivian Grey. BARONETCY. and I dare say some of our tradesmen — brewers or people of that sort....

...was "entered" at Lincoln's Inn, but the Bar never attracted. " Pooh ! " as he laughed in Vivian Grey, "law and bad jokes till we are forty, and then, with...brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet ! " He panted for action. Already in his boyish musings over the pages of Bolingbroke, and of that...