| John Watkins - 1808 - 768 páginas
...her, " Mistress, since it were against good manpers to refuse your new year's gift, I -dm content to to take your gloves ; but as for the lining, I utterly refuse it." The following anecdote of More is given by lord Bacon, in his Essays. " A person who had a suit in chancery... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 572 páginas
...refused, or returned them, and often with his characteristic humour. One lady, in whose favour he bad given a decree, presented him, as a new year's gift,...of gratifying his resentment in its full extent. In 1334 an act was passed declaring the king's marriage with Catherine of Arragon to be void,- and contrary... | |
| John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 412 páginas
...year's gift, More took the gloves, but, pouring out the money, and returning it, said with a sm.ile, V Since it would be contrary to good manners to refuse...gloves, 'but, as for the lining, I utterly refuse it." * 1534. An act, passed in the next session of Parliament, Ofmisprit trea- gave Henry a more promising... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 páginas
...them, he said to her, " Mistress, since it were against good manners to refuse your new year's gift, I am content to take your gloves, but as for the lining, I utterly refuse it." The following anecdote of More is given by Lord Bacon in his Essays : A person who had a suit in Chancery... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 páginas
...returning it, said with a smile, " Since it »ould be contrary to good manners to refuse n new yeiir's gift from a lady, I am content to take your gloves, but as for the lining, 1 utterly refuse il." SiniKINC. A BARGAIN. A Highlander who sold brooms, went into a barber's shop... | |
| Cresacre More - 1828 - 470 páginas
...saying, " Mistress, seeing it were against good manners to refuse a gentlewoman's new year's gift, I am content to take your gloves ; but as for the lining, I utterly refuse it," and so caused her to take her money again. One Mr. Gresham likewise, having at the same time a cause... | |
| 1828 - 268 páginas
...them, he said to her, " Mistress, since it were against good manners to refuse your new-year's gift, I am content to take your gloves, but as for the lining I utterly refuse it." ' Some days in term, such was his dispatch of business, that no cause was heard or motion made. And... | |
| William Sandys - 1833 - 368 páginas
...them, he said to her, " Mistresse, since it were against good manners to refuse your New-year's gift, I am content to take your gloves, but as for the lining I utterly refuse it."f The officers of his court also gave New-year's gifts to the Chancellor; and the first judge that... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 páginas
...them, he said to her, " Mistress, since it were against good manners to refuse your new year's gift, I am content to take your gloves, but as for the lining, I utterly refuse it." The following anecdote of More is given by Lord Bacon in his Essays : — A person who had a suit in Chancery... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 páginas
...them, he said to her, " Mistress, since it were against good manners to refuse your new year's gift, I am content to take your gloves, but as for the lining, I utterly refuse it." Augustine Nicholls, one of the judges in the time of James the First, as an instance of his virtue,... | |
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