Hints on the Nature and Management of DunsT.C. Newby, 1845 - 158 էջ |
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... 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 v
... Fathers , I must affirm , are uncon- scionable beings . There are indeed some respectable progenitors , who are never weary of paying - whose ears are always open to the Detrimental's distress , and their pockets to the Detrimental's ...
... Fathers , I must affirm , are uncon- scionable beings . There are indeed some respectable progenitors , who are never weary of paying - whose ears are always open to the Detrimental's distress , and their pockets to the Detrimental's ...
Էջ vi
... father's shoes and his father's acres , while the Younger will perhaps find it a hard matter to pay for the boots he wears , or the garret which he rents . The Eldest Son , with scarcely the trouble of asking , will find Beauty and vi ...
... father's shoes and his father's acres , while the Younger will perhaps find it a hard matter to pay for the boots he wears , or the garret which he rents . The Eldest Son , with scarcely the trouble of asking , will find Beauty and vi ...
Էջ vii
... father's house , " cry shame upon his folly and imprudence . In such a case , if the " imprudent " marriage should end in poverty and a prison , the world , like the considerate jury , who were trying a man for murdering his wife ...
... father's house , " cry shame upon his folly and imprudence . In such a case , if the " imprudent " marriage should end in poverty and a prison , the world , like the considerate jury , who were trying a man for murdering his wife ...
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... has been brought to the " water system , " and has persevered in his sobriety in a far more exemplary manner than half of Father Mathew's - who , by the way , poor fellow , has , we believe , been lately suffer-. MANAGEMENT OF DUNS . 17.
... has been brought to the " water system , " and has persevered in his sobriety in a far more exemplary manner than half of Father Mathew's - who , by the way , poor fellow , has , we believe , been lately suffer-. MANAGEMENT OF DUNS . 17.
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.