Hints on the Nature and Management of DunsT.C. Newby, 1845 - 158 էջ |
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... do happen sometimes ) , and meeting your washerwoman , to whom you owe six - and - sixpence , and who tells you to your own and the lady's face , that you are " no gen- tleman , to rob a poor woman with four young MANAGEMENT OF DUNS . 21.
... do happen sometimes ) , and meeting your washerwoman , to whom you owe six - and - sixpence , and who tells you to your own and the lady's face , that you are " no gen- tleman , to rob a poor woman with four young MANAGEMENT OF DUNS . 21.
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... faces which meet him , or humming an air of Rossini's , when suddenly a sheriff's officer interrupts his complacent meditations , a writ is served , " the ant - lion has thrown his sand up , " and exit Detri- mental into a Chancery ...
... faces which meet him , or humming an air of Rossini's , when suddenly a sheriff's officer interrupts his complacent meditations , a writ is served , " the ant - lion has thrown his sand up , " and exit Detri- mental into a Chancery ...
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... faces at the physic ? Is it not wiser to attempt converting the one into a draught of nectar , and the other into a bed of rose - leaves ? This may be effected by prudence and discern- ment , but wo to you if you give way to irri ...
... faces at the physic ? Is it not wiser to attempt converting the one into a draught of nectar , and the other into a bed of rose - leaves ? This may be effected by prudence and discern- ment , but wo to you if you give way to irri ...
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... face is not a method peculiarly adapted to remove his sus- picions . The utmost I would allow - and I am inclined , from experience , to consider even this a dangerous expedient , and one to be avoided- is to tell him you are ...
... face is not a method peculiarly adapted to remove his sus- picions . The utmost I would allow - and I am inclined , from experience , to consider even this a dangerous expedient , and one to be avoided- is to tell him you are ...
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... face , but , more extraordinary than all , he actually declined the tailor's affecting offer ! - Talk , after that , of Scipio's continence ! — What was it to the self - denial of that Younger Son , who modestly turned away from a hun ...
... face , but , more extraordinary than all , he actually declined the tailor's affecting offer ! - Talk , after that , of Scipio's continence ! — What was it to the self - denial of that Younger Son , who modestly turned away from a hun ...
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.