 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...affairs, at the beginning of the winter, had but a gloomy aspect; for I had not plundered the public or the poor, of those sums which men, who are always...plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to 1 Letters from the Hon. Horace Walpole to George Montague, Esq. London, i8i8, p. 58. ' In his poetical... | |
 | Henry Fielding - English literature - 1832 - 438 pages
...affairs, at the beginning of the winter, had but a gloomy aspect ; for I had not plundered the public or the poor, of those sums which men, who are always...inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which 1 blush when I say hath not been universally practised,) and by refusing to take a shilling from a... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...affairs,-at.the beginning of the winter, had but a gloomy aspefcfc ; for I had not plundered the public, or the poor', of those sums which men, who are always...plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to'Suspect me of taking ; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porting-... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect ; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which men, who are always...of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars, and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect ; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which men, who are always...of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars, and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 546 pages
...affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which men, who are always ready to plunder both as much as they can, have teen pleased to suspect me of taking : on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...at the beginning of the winter (1752-3), had but a gloomy aspect; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which men, who are always ready to plunder both as much as they can, have bcen pleased to suspect me of taking ; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...affairs, at the beginning of the winter, had but a gloomy aspect ; for I had not plundered the public or the poor, of those sums which men, who are always...ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleasod to suspect me of taking ; on the contran-, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums, which men who are always...and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who Further on, he says, — stout captain of the ship fell down on his knees and asked the sick man's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums, which men who are always...pleased to suspect me of taking; on the contrary, by composing,instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters andbeggars (which I blush when I say hath not... | |
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I will confess that my private affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect ; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which men, who are always ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect... 
