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Página 75 - John Bull: No great matter, for I cannot pay them. They had got a worse trick than that : the same man bought and sold to himself, paid the money and gave the acquittance. The same man was butcher and grazier, brewer and butler, cook and poulterer.
Página 55 - Jack had of late been her inclinations :* Lord Peter she detested; nor did Martin stand much better in her good graces, but Jack had found the way to her heart. I have often admired, what charms...
Página 6 - Baboon's shop? Don't you see how that old fox steals away your customers and turns you out of your business every day, and you sit like an idle drone with your hands in your pockets? Fie upon it! Up man, rouse thyself. I'll sell to my shift before I'll be so used by that knave.
Página 54 - John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter; "Miss looked pale and wan, as if she had the green-sickness; and no wonder, for John was the darling, he had all the good bits, was crammed with good pullet, chicken, pig, goose, and capon, while Miss had only a little oatmeal and water, or a dry crust without butter.
Página 11 - What a pleasure it is to be victorious in a cause: to swagger at the bar. What a fool am I to drudge any more in this woollen trade. For a lawyer I was born, and a lawyer I will be; one is never too old to learn...
Página 54 - JOHN had a sister, a poor girl that had been starved at nurse ; anybody would have guessed Miss to have been bred up under the influence of a cruel step-dame, and John to be the fondling of a tender mother. John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter; Miss looked pale and wan, as if she had the...
Página 8 - ... accounts, or more cheated by partners, apprentices, and servants. This was occasioned by his being a boon companion, loving his bottle and his diversion; for, to say truth, no man kept a better house than John, nor spent his money more generously.
Página 11 - How capriciously does fate or chance dispose of mankind. How seldom is that business allotted to a man for which he is fitted by Nature. It is plain I was intended for a man of law. How did my guardians mistake my genius in placing me, like a mean slave, behind a counter?
Página 69 - In short, the old gentleman was carried off in a fainting fit ; and, after bleeding in both arms, hardly recovered. Mrs.
Página 3 - High heads, ribbons, gloves, fans, and lace, he understood to a nicety ; CHARLES MATHER could not bubble a young beau better with a toy ! nay, he would descend even to the selling of tape, garters, and shoebuckles.