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Pagina 9
... means suggestive of humility . He who first decried Humble Pie , and libelled it as a mean and shabby kind of victuals , was very probably some envious one who came late to the feast , and of the succulent pasty found only the pie ...
... means suggestive of humility . He who first decried Humble Pie , and libelled it as a mean and shabby kind of victuals , was very probably some envious one who came late to the feast , and of the succulent pasty found only the pie ...
Pagina 10
... means of earning a decent and reputable livelihood . He had got no- thing in exchange but a gratuitous seat at an ordinary , at which the Wheresoever he turned , he staple in the bill of fare was Humble Pie . found the detested dish ...
... means of earning a decent and reputable livelihood . He had got no- thing in exchange but a gratuitous seat at an ordinary , at which the Wheresoever he turned , he staple in the bill of fare was Humble Pie . found the detested dish ...
Pagina 11
... mean hotel in a back - street of Blackfriars , was too expensive for him . He tried a Temperance Coffee - house , which was very dirty and very ex- pensive , and that too proved beyond his means . He sought at very many private houses ...
... mean hotel in a back - street of Blackfriars , was too expensive for him . He tried a Temperance Coffee - house , which was very dirty and very ex- pensive , and that too proved beyond his means . He sought at very many private houses ...
Pagina 13
... means were very exigent , and he felt that his scanty stock of ready money would hold out but a little time longer . When he first went to the Chapter , he used to take a dish of tea there ; but soon he be- gan to grudge the cost of ...
... means were very exigent , and he felt that his scanty stock of ready money would hold out but a little time longer . When he first went to the Chapter , he used to take a dish of tea there ; but soon he be- gan to grudge the cost of ...
Pagina 16
... means . They had called it a model lodging - house at first ; but they found the term distasteful to the tenants , -poverty has its proper , as well as its improper , side , —so the name was changed to that of the Mon- mouth Chambers ...
... means . They had called it a model lodging - house at first ; but they found the term distasteful to the tenants , -poverty has its proper , as well as its improper , side , —so the name was changed to that of the Mon- mouth Chambers ...
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