| Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a...had another left, I had reduced an income of about five hundred pounds * a year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than three hundred pounds... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1821 - 850 pages
...instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars, (which, I blush when I say, hath not been universally practised,) and by refusing to take a...had another left, I had reduced an income of about L.500 a-year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than L.300; a considerable portion of... | |
| United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...take fees from men who had scarcely money of their own, I had reduced an income of about 5001. a year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than 300'. a large portion of which went to my clerk." (Voyage to Lisbon, pref. 16. If men in office and patrons... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a...had another left, I had reduced an income of about 5oo/. a-year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than 3oo/., a considerable portion of... | |
| Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a...man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left^Ttracrrecmcecr air income of about 500/. a-year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more... | |
| Henry Fielding, Walter Scott - England - 1831 - 564 pages
...composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a...had another left, I had reduced an income of about 5001. a-year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than 300/., a considerable portion of... | |
| Henry Fielding - English literature - 1832 - 438 pages
...composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which 1 blush when I say hath not been universally practised,) and by refusing to take a...man who most undoubtedly would not have had another loft, I had reduced an income of about ¿00/. a-year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more... | |
| Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars, (which, I blush when I say, hath not been universally practised,) and by refusing to take a...had another left, I had reduced an income of about L.500 a-year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than L.300 ; a considerabla portion... | |
| Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars, (which, I blush when I say, hath not been universally practised,) and by refusing to take a...had another left, I had reduced an income of about L.500 a-year, of the dirtiest money upon «arth, to little more than L.300 ; a considerable portion... | |
| Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porting- and beggars, (which, I blush when I say, hath fcof i*eu universally practised,) and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly wtjtfl'd not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about L.500 a-year, of the dirtiest... | |
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