John Aubrey Quote

He left an estate of eleven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great scraping of wealth, that his sons would spend his Estate faster than he got it; he replied, They cannot take more delight in the spending of it than I did in the getting of it.

"Sir Edward Coke" - Brief Lives

He left an estate of eleven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his...

He left an estate of eleven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his...

He left an estate of eleven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his...

He left an estate of eleven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his...