Hints on the Nature and Management of DunsT.C. Newby, 1845 - 158 էջ |
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Hints. ON THE NATURE AND MANAGEMENT OF DUNS . BY THE HONOURABLE A YOUNGER SON . ODL BIBI HLOY Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco . Myself a victim to insatiate Duns , I learn to pity other Younger ... YOUNGER SONS OF ENGLAND . OF ...
Hints. ON THE NATURE AND MANAGEMENT OF DUNS . BY THE HONOURABLE A YOUNGER SON . ODL BIBI HLOY Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco . Myself a victim to insatiate Duns , I learn to pity other Younger ... YOUNGER SONS OF ENGLAND . OF ...
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Hints. DEDICATION . TO THE YOUNGER SONS OF ENGLAND . OF ELLOW - SUFFERERS , I dedicate the following pages to you to you , who are not the dandified phi- lanthropists called " Young England , " but the unhappy Pariahs y'clept the " young- ...
Hints. DEDICATION . TO THE YOUNGER SONS OF ENGLAND . OF ELLOW - SUFFERERS , I dedicate the following pages to you to you , who are not the dandified phi- lanthropists called " Young England , " but the unhappy Pariahs y'clept the " young- ...
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... younger will often be compelled to dine with " Duke Humphrey . " The Eldest Son has nothing to do but to slip quietly and cosily into his father's shoes and his father's acres , while the Younger will perhaps find it a hard matter to ...
... younger will often be compelled to dine with " Duke Humphrey . " The Eldest Son has nothing to do but to slip quietly and cosily into his father's shoes and his father's acres , while the Younger will perhaps find it a hard matter to ...
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... younger sons to starve , like his own brothers . The Younger Son , is shunned as a pest by fashionable mothers , and frowned upon by marriageable heiresses ; and if he does follow the voice of nature and affection - if he does shun the ...
... younger sons to starve , like his own brothers . The Younger Son , is shunned as a pest by fashionable mothers , and frowned upon by marriageable heiresses ; and if he does follow the voice of nature and affection - if he does shun the ...
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... son be reared in the afflu- ence to which he will one day succeed ; and the younger learn privations and the wholesome lessons of scanty fare by times . Let the one be clothed by Stultz , the other by Moses ; let the one have his ...
... son be reared in the afflu- ence to which he will one day succeed ; and the younger learn privations and the wholesome lessons of scanty fare by times . Let the one be clothed by Stultz , the other by Moses ; let the one have his ...
Common terms and phrases
animal ant-lion beautiful blessed burgundy cabriolet call it merry champagne chapter cheek by jowl cholera Christmas Bills cigars coat considerable course deal chest debt delight Detri Detrimental Detrimental's dine dinner disagreeable door Dun-o-phobia Dun's elder brother eldest epicurean excuses father feel flatter gaze gentleman give glorious golden Governor heart heiress hints honour horrid wafered thing Humbug Injured JOHN BOLSTER kisses knocker ladies lips MANAGEMENT OF DUNS MANAGING YOUR DUNS Marriage Mary dear merry Christmas MISERY morganatic nephew never obedient servant paternal peculiar personage postman's knock pretty prey Primogeniture purse Queen's Bench received remittance reply rich sake shirt single knock Sleep Son's Spencer Saxe Mundham sponging-house sure surplice sweet tailor ten-pound-note thee thou throw tick tiger tion uncle unpleasant victim WAFERED LETTER weary wine-merchant woman words yon basket Young England Younger Sons
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Էջ 69 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Էջ 151 - The Desolator desolate! The Victor overthrown The arbiter of others' fate A suppliant for his own! Is it some yet imperial hope, That with such change can calmly cope? Or dread of death alone? To die a prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave!
Էջ 72 - ... pouting and looking daggers, grievously offended by the absence of her lover, a parcel was brought in by a servant and delivered to the master of the house. He opened it, and to the astonishment of all, out fell a shirt ! Snatching up a little dirty scrap of paper which fell from the garment, the host read out the following exquisite morceau for the edification of the company. " Muster Wilkinson, " Sir. — Has Muster Howard,* owes me eighteen-pence, and has only got this one shirt, -which I...
Էջ 34 - ... boat, further on than his own, where he is disposed of. They are much more numerous than we are. I have not heard of more than about thirty families of Mooteeas, and the Lodahas are not much above two hundred men, but the Bongoos are very numerous, I have heard.
Էջ 72 - ... and, of course, dinnerless. In the middle of dinner at Mr. Wilkinson's that evening, while the guests were discussing the mysterious non-appearance of my hero, and the pretty Charlotte...
Էջ 114 - Because you do not believe that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.