Hints on the Nature and Management of DunsT.C. Newby, 1845 - 158 էջ |
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Էջ iii
... to be your gratitude to the framer of " The Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt Bill , " and to MY LORD BROUGHAM , for his still more recent enactment . Steam , also B 2 DEDICATION . iii Man about Town." But each, and all ...
... to be your gratitude to the framer of " The Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt Bill , " and to MY LORD BROUGHAM , for his still more recent enactment . Steam , also B 2 DEDICATION . iii Man about Town." But each, and all ...
Էջ iv
... out . " Yes , Detrimentals , much has indeed been done for you ; but still your lot is a dreary one , Fathers , who forget their own youth , still frown. HORROR - STRUCK TAILOR , A LARGE BILL TO MEET ,. iv DEDICATION .
... out . " Yes , Detrimentals , much has indeed been done for you ; but still your lot is a dreary one , Fathers , who forget their own youth , still frown. HORROR - STRUCK TAILOR , A LARGE BILL TO MEET ,. iv DEDICATION .
Էջ 14
... bills are sure to fall due the day after he applies for your account . He does not know where to go for the money , so many gentlemen are out of town ; he thought he could depend upon you - a ... BILL TO MEET ,. 14 HINTS ON THE NATURE AND.
... bills are sure to fall due the day after he applies for your account . He does not know where to go for the money , so many gentlemen are out of town ; he thought he could depend upon you - a ... BILL TO MEET ,. 14 HINTS ON THE NATURE AND.
Էջ 15
... for who the devil ever heard of its being " convenient , ” for a Younger Son to pay his bill ? That season of " convenience " is fabulous and visionary , like the Greek Calends , or like that ever - distant MANAGEMENT OF DUNS . 15.
... for who the devil ever heard of its being " convenient , ” for a Younger Son to pay his bill ? That season of " convenience " is fabulous and visionary , like the Greek Calends , or like that ever - distant MANAGEMENT OF DUNS . 15.
Էջ 23
... bill for kid gloves , etc. , such application being backed , a couple of days afterwards , by a six - and - eight- penny letter , from John Flam , Esq . , Gent .; one , etc. FIFTH MISERY . Running against and upsetting your own horse ...
... bill for kid gloves , etc. , such application being backed , a couple of days afterwards , by a six - and - eight- penny letter , from John Flam , Esq . , Gent .; one , etc. FIFTH MISERY . Running against and upsetting your own horse ...
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.