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Page xvi
... masters . Their success in life is not wholly dependent upon their own exertions . Rewarded as they are by a kind of parasitical fee growing out of those paid to the barrister they serve , they wax or wane -grow fat or lean along with ...
... masters . Their success in life is not wholly dependent upon their own exertions . Rewarded as they are by a kind of parasitical fee growing out of those paid to the barrister they serve , they wax or wane -grow fat or lean along with ...
Page xvii
... master's dividends -a more gentlemanlike occupation than dunning attornies for fees , marked but not paid . Salt was a man of ample fortune and of kind heart . He is immortalised in the Essay on " Some of the Old Benchers of the Inner ...
... master's dividends -a more gentlemanlike occupation than dunning attornies for fees , marked but not paid . Salt was a man of ample fortune and of kind heart . He is immortalised in the Essay on " Some of the Old Benchers of the Inner ...
Page xviii
... Master of Arts . Some portion - it would be impossible to say what - of his charm proceeds from the fact of his having been a lettered clerk in the mercantile rather than the ecclesiastical sense of the term . He has thus become the ...
... Master of Arts . Some portion - it would be impossible to say what - of his charm proceeds from the fact of his having been a lettered clerk in the mercantile rather than the ecclesiastical sense of the term . He has thus become the ...
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... master of the coffee - house , which he had frequented for the last five- and - twenty years ) , but not attaining the meridian of its animation till evening brought on the hour of tea and visiting . The simultaneous sound of his well ...
... master of the coffee - house , which he had frequented for the last five- and - twenty years ) , but not attaining the meridian of its animation till evening brought on the hour of tea and visiting . The simultaneous sound of his well ...
Page 15
... vein rises , I strut a Gentleman Commoner . In graver moments , I proceed Master of Arts . Indeed I do not think I am much unlike that respectable character . I have seen your dim - eyed vergers , and bed OXFORD IN THE VACATION 15.
... vein rises , I strut a Gentleman Commoner . In graver moments , I proceed Master of Arts . Indeed I do not think I am much unlike that respectable character . I have seen your dim - eyed vergers , and bed OXFORD IN THE VACATION 15.
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