embarras de richesses

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I remarked coolly that I could not make up my mind what to do, as I had an embarras de richesses.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

The only difficulty in such embarras de richesses of subject and such scantiness of time, is to decide what not to do.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

Far from a poverty of materials, therefore, the historian has much more reason to complain of an embarras de richesses.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

If the field of literature connected with Corsica was found barren when examined in prospect of this expedition, that of Sardinia presented an embarras de richesses.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas

So great, however, is the number of similar, but apparently independent, structures, that we suffer from a perfect embarras de richesses.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George