...house. Wherever he was, he lived in the same taste. He praises to me Mrs. Oldham's economy in several of his letters. He had a right to do what he would...ours till now. Whatever he has left us, he might have still lessened it. That economy is all that concerns us in interest ; and that is in her favour. If...

...compensation than the contract price. The employer answered that he had kept his word; they must be satisfied; he had a right to do what he would with his own. "The last shall be first and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." The moral here has...

...Johnson inclined to this view of the affair. Mr. Gastrel went possibly upon the old argument, that he had a right to do what he would with his own. He was not a reader of the poet, we may take for granted ; he wouldn't have cut down the tree, for...