 I will confess that my private affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy aspect ; for I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which men, who are always ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect...  Fielding - Page 173by Austin Dobson - 1907 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking : on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of...had another left, I had reduced an income of about five hundred pounds * a year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than three hundred pounds... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking ; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of...had another left, I had reduced an income of about L.500 a-year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than L.300; a considerable portion of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...hit, With unimaginable wit. The Parish Register of Twickenham,. suspect me of taking; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of...had another left, I had reduced an income of about 5oo/. a-year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than 3oo/., a considerable portion of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking ; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of...man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left^Ttracrrecmcecr air income of about 500/. a-year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Walter Scott - England - 1831 - 564 pages
...ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking ; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of...had another left, I had reduced an income of about 5001. a-year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than 300/., a considerable portion of... | |
 | Henry Fielding - English literature - 1832 - 438 pages
...ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which 1 blush when I say hath not been universally practised,) and by refusing to take a shilling from a... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking ; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of...had another left, I had reduced an income of about L.500 a-year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than L.300 ; a considerabla portion... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking ; on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of...had another left, I had reduced an income of about L.500 a-year, of the dirtiest money upon «arth, to little more than L.300 ; a considerable portion... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porting- and beggars, (which, I blush when I say, hath fcof i*eu universally practised,) and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly wtjtfl'd not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about L.500 a-year, of the dirtiest... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...taking : on the contrary, by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars, and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who...had another left, I had reduced an income of about five hundred a year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than three hundred ; a considerable... | |
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