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Pagina 84
... Harvest could not speak a word of French , but recollecting fortunately that my lord was staying at the Silver Lion , he put a shilling in his mouth , and placed himself AN ABSENT MAN . 85 in the attitude of a 84 ANECDOTES OF THE CLERGY .
... Harvest could not speak a word of French , but recollecting fortunately that my lord was staying at the Silver Lion , he put a shilling in his mouth , and placed himself AN ABSENT MAN . 85 in the attitude of a 84 ANECDOTES OF THE CLERGY .
Pagina 130
... shillings per annum , a new surplice , a pair of clogs , and feed on the common for one goose . This favoured church preferment was then in the midst of a wild country , inhabited by shepherds . The clerk kept a pot - house opposite the ...
... shillings per annum , a new surplice , a pair of clogs , and feed on the common for one goose . This favoured church preferment was then in the midst of a wild country , inhabited by shepherds . The clerk kept a pot - house opposite the ...
Pagina 135
... shilling ; and when , as it has been surmised from his own account of a young man at Oxford , his income was £ 30 per annum , he gave away £ 2 ; the next year , receiving £ 60 , he still lived on £ 28 , and gave away £ 32 ; the third ...
... shilling ; and when , as it has been surmised from his own account of a young man at Oxford , his income was £ 30 per annum , he gave away £ 2 ; the next year , receiving £ 60 , he still lived on £ 28 , and gave away £ 32 ; the third ...
Pagina 148
... shillings of tithes of which he defrauded me , but which he desired , nay , commanded , you should pay ; and on that condition only he has agreed to trouble the house no more . He does not insist on your com- pleting his promise to his ...
... shillings of tithes of which he defrauded me , but which he desired , nay , commanded , you should pay ; and on that condition only he has agreed to trouble the house no more . He does not insist on your com- pleting his promise to his ...
Pagina 173
... shillings in favour of the shopkeeper . The doctor had recourse to his pocket , and pulled out some halfpence , a little silver , and a guinea ; the grocer , eyeing the latter with a degree of surprise , exclaimed : " Good heavens , sir ...
... shillings in favour of the shopkeeper . The doctor had recourse to his pocket , and pulled out some halfpence , a little silver , and a guinea ; the grocer , eyeing the latter with a degree of surprise , exclaimed : " Good heavens , sir ...
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