| 1848 - 636 páginas
...a scanty income to the utmost. According to Johnson, whom we have before quoted, "there is no plnce where economy can be so well practised as in London...can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than everywhere else. You cannot play tricks with your fortune in a small place ; you must make a uniform... | |
| 1856 - 374 páginas
...they are old ; and lawyers, like bread, when they are young and new. — Fuller. MCCCCLXXL London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than every where else. You cannot play tricks with your fortune in a small place ; you must mate an uniform... | |
| John Timbs - 1856 - 378 páginas
...they are old ; and lawyers, like bread, when they are young and new. — Fuller. MccCCI.XXI. London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, I.ondon is the place. And there is no place where economy can be so well practised as in I.ondon :... | |
| 1848 - 638 páginas
...children, eking out a scanty income to the utmost. According to Johnson, whom we have before quoted, " there is no place where economy can be so well practised...can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than everywhere else. You cannot play tricks with your fortune in a small place ; you must make a uniform... | |
| Joe Miller - 1871 - 200 páginas
...men ; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." Talking of London, Johnson said, "London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than anywhere else. You cannot play tricks with your fortune in a small place : you must make an uniform... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...April 1, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for ' a dogged veracity.' He said, too, 'London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...intellectual, London is the place. And there is no place where ecomony can be so well practised as in London : more can be had here for the money, even by ladies,... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 páginas
...April 1, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for ' a dogged veracity.' He said, too, 'London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the place. Ami there is no place where ecomony can be no well practised as in London : more can be had here for... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...i, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for " a dogged veracity."* He said too, " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...intellectual, London is the place. And there is no place where ceconomy can be so well practised as in London. More can be had here for the money, even by ladies,... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...r, he commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for " a dogged veracity."" He said too, " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...intellectual, London is the place. And there is no place where ceconomy can be so well practised as in London. More can be had here for the money, _ even by ladies,... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 páginas
...burly doctor thus philosophises on the same subject in a homely and practical strain : — " London is nothing to some people ; but to a man whose pleasure...can be had here for the money, even by ladies, than anywhere else. You cannot play tricks with your fortune in a small place ; you must make an uniform... | |
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