| 1849 - 700 sivua
...forgot his academical pursuits in rural businessand pleasures. His chief scrioun employment was the care of his property. He examined samples of grain, handled pigs, and, on market-days, made bargains over a tankard with drovers and hopmerchants. His chief pleasures were commonly... | |
| 1849 - 854 sivua
...business and pleasure. His chief serious employment was the care of his properly. He examined sampler of grain, handled pigs, and on market days made bargains...expect to hear only from the most ignorant clowns. It was easy to discern, from the first words which he * It is believed that coal was introduced into... | |
| 1849 - 654 sivua
...grain, handled pigs, and on market-days made bargains over a tankard with drovers and hop-merchants. His chief pleasures were commonly derived from field...and scurrilous terms of abuse, were uttered with the 2 R 2 broadest broadest accent of his province. It was easy to discern, from the first words which... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 sivua
...century, and contrast the immense distance hetween him and his modern representative : — " His cliief pleasures were commonly derived from field sports...scurrilous terms of abuse, were uttered with the broadest accents of his province. His table was loaded with coarse plenty ; and guests were cordially weleomed... | |
| 1849 - 638 sivua
...to rust in so unfavorable a situation. THE SQUIRE AT HOME. His chief serious employment was the care of his property. He examined samples of grain, handled...on market days made bargains over a tankard, with drover» and hop merchants. His chief pleasures were eommonly derived from field sports and from an... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 sivua
...grain, handled pigs, and on market-days made bargains over a tankard with drovers and hop-merchants. His chief pleasures were commonly derived from field sports and from an unrefined sensuality. His 1849.] [July, language and pronunciation were such as we should now expect to hear only from the most... | |
| Churchill Babington - 1849 - 182 sivua
...easy to discern, from the first words which he spoke, whether he came from Somersetshire or Yorkshire. His chief pleasures were commonly derived from field sports and from an unrefined sensuality. Hceo satis inter se conveniunt. It seems, therefore, after all, that Mr. Macaulay has described, not... | |
| Churchill Babington - 1849 - 138 sivua
...easy to discern, from the first words which he spoke, whether he came from Somersetshire or Yorkshire. His chief pleasures were commonly derived from field sports and from an unrefined sensuality. Hcec satis inter se conveniunt. It seems, therefore, after all, that Mr. Macaulay has described, not... | |
| 1875 - 676 sivua
...His chief pleasures were field sport» and an unrefined sensuality. His language and pronunciation such as we should now expect to hear only from the most ignorant clowns. The habit of drinking to excess was general in the class to which he belonged. Strong beer was the... | |
| John Algernon Clarke - 1852 - 284 sivua
...necessity of residing, with little interruption, on his estate His chief serious employment was the care of his property. He examined samples of grain, handled pigs, and on market-days made bargains over a tankard with drovers and hop-merchants The litter of a farm-yard gathered... | |
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