 | 1854 - 506 pages
...surveyor. Sir John Petters, in his Fodinee Regales, thus quaintly speaks of Sir Hugh Middleton :—" Had he not diverted his great gains to the making...mass of wealth ; but great wits and purses seldom knoio how to give bounds to their designments, and by undertaking too many things fail in all." The... | |
 | 1855 - 946 pages
...undertaking that he was compelled to work as a mineral surveyor. Sir John Pettus quaintly says,—' Had he not diverted his great gains to the making...designments, and by undertaking too many things, fail in alL' Mr. Bushell, secretary of Sir Francis Bacon, had possession of those mines in 1637, when he established... | |
 | John Arthur Phillips - 1857 - 364 pages
...per annum rent to the society, and he cleared monthly the sum of £2000, and had he not diverted his gains to the making of the new river from Ware to...wits and purses seldom know how to give bounds to Sir John Pettus, who published his " Fodms Regales" in 1670, remarks, while treating of the mines of... | |
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Had he not diverted his great gains to the making of the New River from W'are to London, certainly he would have been master of a mass of wealth; but great wits and purses seldom know how to give bounds to their designments, and by undertaking too many... 