Men and Manners in Britain: Or, A Bone to Gnaw for the Trollopes, Fidlers, &c. Being Notes from a Journal, on Sea and on Land, in 1833-4Wiley & Long, 1834 - 187 páginas |
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... better right to shut their stores , and close their shops , than the judge has to stop the sale of justice for two days . Besides , is not this intended to establish a dangerous precedent , a sort of law , full of aristocracy ? Thinking ...
... better right to shut their stores , and close their shops , than the judge has to stop the sale of justice for two days . Besides , is not this intended to establish a dangerous precedent , a sort of law , full of aristocracy ? Thinking ...
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... hazard ; but in my better judgment I cannot and do not regret it . I think the duty has been pointed out plainly by the dispensations of Him who directs alike the destinies of angels and of men , not to 2 CHAPTER I. ...
... hazard ; but in my better judgment I cannot and do not regret it . I think the duty has been pointed out plainly by the dispensations of Him who directs alike the destinies of angels and of men , not to 2 CHAPTER I. ...
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... better paid ; but then money is of no service to them : they are not inhabitants of the earth - sea is their element . They know as little how to spend a dollar to advantage , as the child of three years , when he empties his little ...
... better paid ; but then money is of no service to them : they are not inhabitants of the earth - sea is their element . They know as little how to spend a dollar to advantage , as the child of three years , when he empties his little ...
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... better cooks . Every morning we have fresh milk from the cow , without the contamination of blue- skin water from the race grounds of Long - Island . We have men of mind and science from the four quarters THORBURN'S JOURNAL . 19.
... better cooks . Every morning we have fresh milk from the cow , without the contamination of blue- skin water from the race grounds of Long - Island . We have men of mind and science from the four quarters THORBURN'S JOURNAL . 19.
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... addition to all your other cares on the road , you have to carry a pocket full of change . Better would it be to put every charge in the bill , and make you pay at the bar . CHAPTER II . A visit to the Tower . I 22 THORBURN'S JOURNAL .
... addition to all your other cares on the road , you have to carry a pocket full of change . Better would it be to put every charge in the bill , and make you pay at the bar . CHAPTER II . A visit to the Tower . I 22 THORBURN'S JOURNAL .
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