That was a great deal too smart for me.
The law was allowed to be genteel enough; many young men, who had chambers in the Temple, made a very good appearance in the first circles, and drove about town in very knowing gigs.

But I had no inclination for the law, even in this less abstruse study of it, which my family approved.

As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it--and, at length, as there was no necessity for my having any profession at all, as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable, and a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing.

I was therefore entered at Oxford and have been properly idle ever since." "The consequence of which, I suppose, will be," said Mrs.Dashwood, "since leisure has not promoted your own happiness, that your sons will be brought up to as many pursuits, employments, professions, and trades as Columella's." "They will be brought up," said he, in a serious accent, "to be as unlike myself as is possible.

In feeling, in action, in condition, in every thing." "Come, come; this is all an effusion of immediate want of spirits, Edward.