The Companion: After-dinner Table-talkG. P. Putnam, 1850 - 192 páginas |
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... TASTE OF THEM ; WHEN HE HAD BY THIS MEANS GOT TOGETHER A QUANTITY MADE UP OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT SORTS , HE SOLD IT AGAIN AT A LOWER RATE TO THE SAME PERFUMER , WHO , FINDING OUT THE TRICK , CALLED IT TABAC DE MILLE FLEURS , ' OR ' SNUFF ...
... TASTE OF THEM ; WHEN HE HAD BY THIS MEANS GOT TOGETHER A QUANTITY MADE UP OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT SORTS , HE SOLD IT AGAIN AT A LOWER RATE TO THE SAME PERFUMER , WHO , FINDING OUT THE TRICK , CALLED IT TABAC DE MILLE FLEURS , ' OR ' SNUFF ...
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... taste- " Why , " said he , " you will be change for a guinea . " At the sale of the effects of the minister , Mr. Pelham , Selwyn , pointing to a silver dinner - service , observed— “ Lord , how many toads have been eaten off those ...
... taste- " Why , " said he , " you will be change for a guinea . " At the sale of the effects of the minister , Mr. Pelham , Selwyn , pointing to a silver dinner - service , observed— “ Lord , how many toads have been eaten off those ...
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... be content to receive money , or clothes , or a joint of meat from a friend . Why should he not send me a dinner as well as a dessert ? I would taste 4 * AFTER DINNER 41 TABLE - TALK . Mistake on Both Sides Presents Charles Lamb.
... be content to receive money , or clothes , or a joint of meat from a friend . Why should he not send me a dinner as well as a dessert ? I would taste 4 * AFTER DINNER 41 TABLE - TALK . Mistake on Both Sides Presents Charles Lamb.
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... taste him in the beasts of the field , and through all creation . - Lamb . INFANTS . Some admiring what motives to mirth infants meet with in their silent and solitary smiles , have resolved , how truly I know not , that they converse ...
... taste him in the beasts of the field , and through all creation . - Lamb . INFANTS . Some admiring what motives to mirth infants meet with in their silent and solitary smiles , have resolved , how truly I know not , that they converse ...
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... tastes of his native guests , never to be without a smoked little boy in the bacon - rack , and a cold clergyman on the sideboard . " And as for myself , my lord , " he concluded , " all I can say is , that when your new parishioners do ...
... tastes of his native guests , never to be without a smoked little boy in the bacon - rack , and a cold clergyman on the sideboard . " And as for myself , my lord , " he concluded , " all I can say is , that when your new parishioners do ...
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