| Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1771 - 288 pages
...three miles to walk before noon, to inform fome boarding-fchool young ladies, whether their hufbands are to be peers of the realm, or captains in the army : a queftion which I promrfed to anfwer them by that time." Harley had drawn a fhilling from his pocket... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - English fiction - 1800 - 254 pages
...must bid you good-day, Sir; for I have three miles to walk before noon, to inform some boarding-school young ladies, whether their husbands are to be peers...Virtue bade him consider on whom he was going to bestow it.—Virtue held back his arm :—but a milder form, a younger sister of Virtue's, not so severe as... | |
| English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...boarding-school young ladies, » wjaether their husbands are to be peers *i6 THE ENGL ISH IN STRTTCTOH. » of the realm , or captains in the army : a » question...form, a younger sister of Virtue's , not so severe a« Virtue , nor so serious as Pity , smiled upon him : his fingers lost their compression ; — nor... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1801 - 196 pages
...three miles to walk before noon, to inform fome boarding-fchool young ladies, whether their huibands are to be peers of the realm, or captains in the army; a queftion which I promifed to anfwer them by that time." Harley had drawn a fhilling from his pocket;... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1815 - 302 pages
...walk before noon, to inform some boarding-school young ladies, whether their husbands are to be peer? of the realm, or captains in the army; a question...Virtue bade him consider on whom he was going to bestow it.—Virtue held back his arm; but a milder form, a younger sister of Virtue's, ' It •not so severe... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...bid you a good-day, sir, for I have three miles to walk before noon, to inform some buurdiugechool lin was blest ! But now she is gone, and has left me behind. What a captuuie iu the army; a question which I promised to answer them by that time.' Harley had drawn a... | |
| Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...bid you good day, sir ; for I have three miles to walk before noon, to inform some boarding-school young ladies whether their husbands are to be peers...but a milder form, a younger sister of Virtue's, not BO severe as Virtue, nor so serious as Pity, smiled upon him : his fingers lost their compression ;... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1847 - 534 pages
...bid you good-day, sir ; for I have three miles to walk before noon, to inform some boarding-school young ladies, whether their husbands are to be peers...drawn a shilling from his pocket; but Virtue bade him to consider on whom he was going to bestow it. — Virtue held back his arm : — but a milder form,... | |
| American literature - 1853 - 334 pages
...bid you good day, sir ; for I have three miles to walk before noon, to inform some boarding-school young ladies whether their husbands are to be peers...by that time." Harley had drawn a shilling from his Docket ; but Virtue bade him consider on whom he was going to bestow it. Virtue held back his arm;... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...bid you good day v , sir; for I have three miles to walk before noon, to inform some boarding-school young ladies, whether their husbands are to be peers of the realm, or captains in the army v ; a question which I promised to answer them by tbat time." 8. Harley had drawn a shilling from his... | |
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