The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... with Four Hundred and Thirty-six Engravings, Volume 3Thomas Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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Page 3
... never been written on . Some of the edges being a little worn , show that the middle of the leaf consists of paper ; the composition is laid on with great nicety . A silver style was used , which is sheathed in one of the covers , and ...
... never been written on . Some of the edges being a little worn , show that the middle of the leaf consists of paper ; the composition is laid on with great nicety . A silver style was used , which is sheathed in one of the covers , and ...
Page 43
... never thought of asking , and do not know . He was probably a native of Devonshire , for there he spent the last years of his life ; spent them , too , in some sort of consideration , for Mr. T. ( a very respectable surgeon of Ashburton ) ...
... never thought of asking , and do not know . He was probably a native of Devonshire , for there he spent the last years of his life ; spent them , too , in some sort of consideration , for Mr. T. ( a very respectable surgeon of Ashburton ) ...
Page 45
... never greatly loved him ; I had not grown up with him ; and he was too prone to repulse my little advances to familiarity , with coldness , or anger . He had certainly some reason to be displeased with me , for I learned little at ...
... never greatly loved him ; I had not grown up with him ; and he was too prone to repulse my little advances to familiarity , with coldness , or anger . He had certainly some reason to be displeased with me , for I learned little at ...
Page 51
... never have been realized , I was found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley , a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration . The lamentable dog- gerel which I have already mentioned , and which had passed ...
... never have been realized , I was found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley , a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration . The lamentable dog- gerel which I have already mentioned , and which had passed ...
Page 123
... never wanted whetting . Could but see the mighty treat you Prepared , when he sits down to eat His breakfast or his dinner , -ah , Nat vegetable - flesh , —alone , But timber , houses , iron , stone , He eats the very china . When ...
... never wanted whetting . Could but see the mighty treat you Prepared , when he sits down to eat His breakfast or his dinner , -ah , Nat vegetable - flesh , —alone , But timber , houses , iron , stone , He eats the very china . When ...
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