The Adventures of a Bank-note ...T. Davies, 1771 |
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... year's fallary of five " c guineas , in advance ; judging two " things might have happened : the " first was , that althovgh this reve- " rend Paddy had rode poft on foot " from s from Chester ; yet expences , even " that [ 45 ]
... year's fallary of five " c guineas , in advance ; judging two " things might have happened : the " first was , that althovgh this reve- " rend Paddy had rode poft on foot " from s from Chester ; yet expences , even " that [ 45 ]
Page 59
... happened to touch , in its paffage to thy grinders be it which way it would , the precaution was no bad . one ; and no clergyman need bẹ afhamed of following the example of fo harmless a creature . Mr. Derbyshire's friend was great- ly ...
... happened to touch , in its paffage to thy grinders be it which way it would , the precaution was no bad . one ; and no clergyman need bẹ afhamed of following the example of fo harmless a creature . Mr. Derbyshire's friend was great- ly ...
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Thomas Bridges. bench ; but , if there was one , and he happened to fall , he might lay till doomsday , for want of another to take him up . I wish I had my penny again , with all my heart , and the dram was in the fellow's bottle or ...
Thomas Bridges. bench ; but , if there was one , and he happened to fall , he might lay till doomsday , for want of another to take him up . I wish I had my penny again , with all my heart , and the dram was in the fellow's bottle or ...
Page 128
... happened to be very long , which made us fwing backward and forward like boys in a merry - totter . - We did not like it , because , at every return , our rumps came bump against the feals on John's watch - chain , of which , true ...
... happened to be very long , which made us fwing backward and forward like boys in a merry - totter . - We did not like it , because , at every return , our rumps came bump against the feals on John's watch - chain , of which , true ...
Page 140
... happened to be in the pock- et of the grocer's wife , all the time you was telling her , you could not help comparing her breafts to Solo- mon's description of the church ; and , piously taking off the good creature's handkerchief , to ...
... happened to be in the pock- et of the grocer's wife , all the time you was telling her , you could not help comparing her breafts to Solo- mon's description of the church ; and , piously taking off the good creature's handkerchief , to ...
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Page 131 - Tempjars ev'ry fentence raife} And wonder with a foolifh face of praife— Who but muft laugh,- if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What tho...
Page 133 - Chriftians ; there's no objection to their being rogues if they do ; and then, when pork is not forbid, they won't eat a tenth part they do...
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Page 165 - Jacob, ever fold a black-lead " pencil, or a roll of hard pomatum, " or a pair of fleeve buttons in their " jives : then, pray, how could they