The History Of Sir George Ellison
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780548279441
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: Sir George Ellison's father was the younger son of an ancient and opulent family; but receiving only that small proportion of his father's wealth, which, according to the custom of this country, usually falls to the share of a younger child, his posterity had little chance of inheriting any considerable fortune from him; though he had, by the profession in which he was place, been enabled to live genteelly.