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... poor . He had a maxim , that to live in a state of constant effort to restrain expenses , is the nearest thing to absolute poverty . He had a town and country house , and a carriage , and entertained great numbers of all kinds of people ...
... poor . He had a maxim , that to live in a state of constant effort to restrain expenses , is the nearest thing to absolute poverty . He had a town and country house , and a carriage , and entertained great numbers of all kinds of people ...
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... Poor Weston ! ' Immediately he added in a tone of self - reproach : Poor Weston ! It will very soon , I fear , be Poor Foote ! ' He was right . After an ineffectual visit to Paris , he returned to London , and expired on the 21st of ...
... Poor Weston ! ' Immediately he added in a tone of self - reproach : Poor Weston ! It will very soon , I fear , be Poor Foote ! ' He was right . After an ineffectual visit to Paris , he returned to London , and expired on the 21st of ...
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... poor Foote upon the score of principle , we frankly own that ours is not the pen which can frame the verdict . THE DEAD - HOUSE OF PARIS . * LA MORGUE - or the Dead - house - of Paris is a retired gloomy building , situated on that part ...
... poor Foote upon the score of principle , we frankly own that ours is not the pen which can frame the verdict . THE DEAD - HOUSE OF PARIS . * LA MORGUE - or the Dead - house - of Paris is a retired gloomy building , situated on that part ...
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... Poor thing ! how lovely she is ! ' Ah , ' said the wife of François , ' perhaps she had a mother , who waited anxiously for her return from the country ! By the by , François , where did you lay her ? -on the dissection - table ? ' No ...
... Poor thing ! how lovely she is ! ' Ah , ' said the wife of François , ' perhaps she had a mother , who waited anxiously for her return from the country ! By the by , François , where did you lay her ? -on the dissection - table ? ' No ...
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... poor nurse's exclamations , to tell his wife to note the name Leonore . ' Remember , wife , to repeat it to Monsieur Perrin , that he may inscribe it in his register . ' François then resumed the nurse's soliloquising . " Ah , I cannot ...
... poor nurse's exclamations , to tell his wife to note the name Leonore . ' Remember , wife , to repeat it to Monsieur Perrin , that he may inscribe it in his register . ' François then resumed the nurse's soliloquising . " Ah , I cannot ...
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Seite 21 - Mr. Fitzherbert, in all their names, upon a certain day, that they would drink Foote's small-beer no longer. On that day Foote happened to dine at Fitzherbert's, and this boy served at table; he was so delighted with Foote's stories, and merriment, and grimace, that when he went down stairs, he told them, 'This is the finest man I have ever seen. I will not deliver your message. I will drink his small-beer.
Seite 21 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenlyj affecting not to mind him.
Seite 110 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Seite 151 - This pass conducts to the theatre, and here the ruins of the city burst on the view in their full grandeur, shut in on the opposite side by barren craggy precipices, from which numerous ravines and valleys, like those we had passed, branch out in all directions. The sides of the mountains, covered with an endless variety of excavated tombs and private dwellings, presented altogether the most singular scene we ever beheld...
Seite 61 - His Kingdom of Corsica, For the use of his creditors. The grave, great teacher, to a level brings. Heroes, and beggars, galley-slaves, and kings : But Theodore this moral learn'd, ere dead ; Fate pour'd its lessons on his living head, Bestow'da kingdom, and denied him bread.
Seite 61 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Seite 21 - Frank dress, with his hand placed to his head, wearing spectacles, and with one foot on the ground and the other raised behind him, as if he were stepping down from a seat. The description was exactly true in every respect; the peculiar position of the hand was occasioned by an almost constant headache, and that of the foot or leg by a stiff knee, caused by a fall from a horse in hunting.
Seite 93 - Fitch became embarrassed with debt, and was obliged to abandon the invention, a fter having satisfied himself of its practicability. This ingenious man, who was probably the first inventor of the steam-boat, wrote three volumes, which he deposited in manuscript, sealed up, in the Philadelphia Library, to be opened thirty years after his death. When or why he came to the West, we have not learned ; but it is recorded of him, that he died and was buried near the Ohio. His three volumes were opened...
Seite 19 - ... addressed himself to me, and asked me if I wished the boy to see any person who was absent or dead. I named Lord Nelson, of whom the boy had evidently never heard, for it was with much difficulty that he pronounced the name after several trials. The magician desired the boy to say to the sooltan, ' My master salutes thee, and desires thee to bring Lord Nelson: bring him before my eyes, that I may see him, speedily...
Seite 3 - ... of private sentinels. Nothing but your loyalty, and that of a few of my subjects in Britain, who are forced from their allegiance by the Prince of Orange, and who, I know, will be ready on all occasions to serve me and my distressed family, could make me willing to live. The sense of what...