| Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 516 pages
...sanctuary. . . . The visitants are all men without exception, but the principal inhabitants and possessors are; stale knights, and captains out of service ; men of long rapiers and breeches which, after all, turn merchants here and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...and itch. The visitants are all men without exceptions ; but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service ; men of long rapiers and breeches, which, after all turn merchants here, and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their... | |
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 380 pages
...swear here. The visitants are all men, without exceptions, but the principal inhahitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service, men of long rapiers and breeches, which after all turn merchants here, and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their... | |
| Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pages
...sanctuary. " ' The visitants are all men, without exception; but the principal inhabitants and possessors are, stale knights, and captains out of service, men of long rapiers and breeches, which, after all, turn merchants here, and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their... | |
| Richard Thomson - English essays - 1828 - 426 pages
...searcher is a bush to hide them. The visitants are all men, without exceptions ; but the principal are stale Knights and Captains out of service ; men of long rapiers and breeches, which, after all, turn merchants here, and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their... | |
| Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...pockets. The visitants are all men without exceptions, but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service ; men of long rapiers, which, after all, turn merchants here, and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their dinner,... | |
| Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...pockets. The visitants are all men without exceptions, but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service ; men of long rapiers, which, after all, turn merchants here, and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their dinner,... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 478 pages
...and itch. The visitants are all men without exceptions ; but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service — men of long rapiers and breeches — which after all turn merchants here, and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their... | |
| John Thomas Smith - Literary landmarks - 1846 - 484 pages
...the other expense of the day after playing tavern, and men have still some oaths left to swear here. The principal inhabitants are stale knights and captains out of service, men of long rapiers and breeches, which, after all, turn merchants here and traffic for news." Dekkar in his " Gull's Horn-Book,"... | |
| John Thomas Smith - City dwellers - 1849 - 472 pages
...the other expense of the day after playing tavern, and men have still some oaths left to swear here. The principal inhabitants are stale knights and captains out of service, men of long rapiers and breeches, which, after all, turn merchants here and traffic for news*." Dekkar in his " Gull's Horn-Book,"... | |
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