The expedition of Humphry ClinkerDavid Ramsay. For Jo. and Ja. Fairbairn, ... and A. Guthrie, 1790 |
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... fortune is made - As times go , fure fep to honour and preferment . I fall think myfelf happy if I can lend you a lift ; and am , very fin- eerely , that's a London , Aug. 10 . Yours , HENRY DAVIS . Pleafe my kind fervice to your ...
... fortune is made - As times go , fure fep to honour and preferment . I fall think myfelf happy if I can lend you a lift ; and am , very fin- eerely , that's a London , Aug. 10 . Yours , HENRY DAVIS . Pleafe my kind fervice to your ...
Pagina 3
... fortune to be worried by a butcher's dog , and came home in a terrible pickle - Miftrifs was taken with the afterisks , but they foon went off . The docter was fent for to Chowder , and he fubfcribed a repofitory , which did him great ...
... fortune to be worried by a butcher's dog , and came home in a terrible pickle - Miftrifs was taken with the afterisks , but they foon went off . The docter was fent for to Chowder , and he fubfcribed a repofitory , which did him great ...
Pagina 25
... fortune takes pleasure in perfecuting your poor friend . If you fhould fee him at Gloucefter - or if you have seen him , and know his real name and family , pray keep me no longer in fufpence - And yet , if he is under no obligation to ...
... fortune takes pleasure in perfecuting your poor friend . If you fhould fee him at Gloucefter - or if you have seen him , and know his real name and family , pray keep me no longer in fufpence - And yet , if he is under no obligation to ...
Pagina 37
... fortune , harneffed in the trappings of the mode , prefents himself at Bath , as in the very focus of obfervation - Clerks and factors from the Eaft Indies , loaded with the spoil of plundered provinces ; planters , negro - drivers ...
... fortune , harneffed in the trappings of the mode , prefents himself at Bath , as in the very focus of obfervation - Clerks and factors from the Eaft Indies , loaded with the spoil of plundered provinces ; planters , negro - drivers ...
Pagina 38
... fortune , are infected with the fame rage of difplaying their im- portance ; and the flightest indifpofition ferves them for a pretext to infift upon being conveyed to Bath , where they may hobble country dances and cotillions among ...
... fortune , are infected with the fame rage of difplaying their im- portance ; and the flightest indifpofition ferves them for a pretext to infift upon being conveyed to Bath , where they may hobble country dances and cotillions among ...
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Pagina 134 - ... they insist upon having the complexion of their pot-herbs mended, even at the hazard of their lives. Perhaps, you will hardly believe they can be so mad as to boil their greens with brass half-pence, in order to improve their colour ; and yet nothing is more true.
Pagina 35 - ... dangerous, and indirect. Its communication with the baths is through the yard of an inn, where the poor trembling valetudinarian is carried in a chair, betwixt the heels of a double row of horses, wincing under the curry-combs of grooms and postillions, over and above the hazard of being obstructed, or overturned, by the carriages which are continually making their exit or their entrance.
Pagina 38 - Knowing no other criterion of greatness, but the ostentation of wealth, they discharge their affluence without taste or conduct, through every channel of the most absurd extravagance; and all of them hurry to Bath, because here, without any further qualification, they can mingle with the princes and nobles of the land.
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