 | 1844 - 574 pàgines
...his caustic humour. A few sentences may not displease the reader. ' I told you at our last meeting, the winter was the fittest time for business, and truly I thought so, till my lord-treasurer assured me the spring was the best season for salads and subsidies. . . , Some of you,... | |
 | 1832 - 952 pàgines
...the prevailing style of irony and satire. " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " I told you at our last meeting, the winter was the fittest time for business ; and...prove so unnatural a month, as not to afford some kind «bowers on my parched exchequer, which1 gapes for want of them. Some of you, perhaps, will think it... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 136 pàgines
...AND GENTLEMEN, " I told you, at our lust meeting, the winter was the fittest time for business, und truly I thought so, till MY LORD TREASURER assured...subsidies. I hope, therefore, that April will not prove BO unnatural a month, as not to afl'urd some kind showers on my parched exchequer, which gapes for... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pàgines
...humor. A few sentences may not displease the reader. 'I told you at our last meeting, the winter waa the fittest time for business, and truly I thought so, till my lord-treasurer assured me the spring was the best season for salads and subsidies. . . . Some of you,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 426 pàgines
...witty Charles, as our canstic anthor represents him speaking :— " I told you at onr last mceting, the winter was the fittest time for business ; and truly I thought so, till my lord-treasurer assured me the spring was tlie best season for salads and subsidics . . . Some of you,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 536 pàgines
...his caustic humour. A few sentences may not displease the reader. ' I told you at our last meeting, the winter was the fittest time for business, and truly I thought so, till my lord-treasurer assured me the spring was the best season for salads and subsidies. . . . Some of you,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 542 pàgines
...meeting, the winter was the fittest time for business, and truly I thought so, till my lord-treasurer assured me the spring was the best season for salads and subsidies. . . . Some of you, perhaps, will think it dangerous to make me too rich ; but I do not fear it, for... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pàgines
...witty Charles, as our caustic author represents him speaking : — " I told you at our last meeting, the winter was the fittest time for business ; and truly I thought so, till my lord-treasurer assured me the spring was the best season for salads and subsidies. . . . Some of you,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 pàgines
...his caustic humor. A few sentences may not displease the reader. " I told you at our last meeting, the winter was the fittest time for business, and truly I thought so, till my lord-treasurer assured me the spring was the best season for salads and subsidies Some of you, perhaps,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 pàgines
...his caustic humor. A few sentences may not displease the reader. "I told you at our last meeting•, the winter "was the fittest time for business, and truly I thought so, till my lord-treasurer assured me the spring was the best season for salads and subsidies Some of you, perhaps,... | |
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I told you at our last meeting thut the winter was the fittest time for business, and truly I thought so, till my Lord Treasurer assured me the spring was the best season for salads and subsidies. I hope, therefore, that April will not prove so unnatural... 
