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Sida 205 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out.
Sida 13 - The 2d edit, contains an Essay On the Several Dispensations of God to Mankind, in the order in which they lie in the Bible; or a Short System of the Religion of Nature and Scripture, 1st edit, 1725.
Sida 205 - Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased: and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him; but the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back in my chair, and fairly laugh it out. Sir, he was irresistible.
Sida 71 - Mastix ; or, an Anti-Caveat to all such as have had the misfortune to be cheated and deluded by that great and treacherous impostor, John Booker." This was a mere libel, but Wharton was also a writer of political
Sida 28 - ANTHONY, an able and learned judge in the reign of Henry VIII., was b. at Norburv, in Derbyshire, and educated at Oxford, from whence he removed to one of the inns of court. In 1523 he was made a judge in the court of common pleas, and d. in 1538. He wrote "The Grand Abridgment...
Sida 202 - Nov. 1672; whereupon his ingenious comrades did serenade him that night, while he was in the embraces of his mistress, with the said song.