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The colonels might every now and then have understood a word, and maybe a few of the captains and lieutenants, because Lieutenant Lansdown told me he understood every word the preacher said, and further informed me that it was none of your one-horse, old-fashioned country prayers that privates knew anything about, but was bang-up, first-rate, orthodox.
P.S. Vera asked me if I thought you'd take her and Ronny in at Midsummer. I said of course you would like a shot. LANSDOWN LODGE. CHELTENHAM, Friday. MY DEAREST FRANCES: I hope you got my two wires in time. You needn't come down, either of you. And you needn't worry about Mick. All the same we both think you'd better take him away at Midsummer.
Love for Money, or the Boarding School; a Comedy; acted at the Theatre-Royal 1691, dedicated to Charles Lord Viscount Lansdown, Count of the Sacred Roman Empire, &c. This play met with opposition in the first day's representation, but afterwards succeeded pretty well. The scene Chelsea. The Richmond Heiress, or a Woman once in the Right; a Comedy, acted at the Theatre-Royal 1693.
Knight Joseph, broker, St. St. Philip. Liscombe Robert, carpenter and joiner, St. St. James. Lansdown William, hooper, St. Philip. Lewis Matthew, mason, St. James. Leonard William, pork-butcher, St. St. Languell Thomas, mason, St. James. Lawful Francis, sawyer, St. Philip. Lancaster James, cordwainer, St. James. Lewis John, joiner, Bridgewater. Liddiard James, turner, Temple.
I'm beat, but hang me if I didn't outrun the whole Yankee army coming out of Kentucky; got away from Lieutenant Lansdown and the whole detail at Chattanooga with half a hog, a fifty pound sack of flour, a jug of Meneesee commissary whisky, and a camp-kettle full of brown sugar. I'm beat. Billy Martin, hand over the stakes. Bully for Bragg; he's hell on a retreat." Tennessee was trying bluff.
My mode of life, establishment, &c., are the same as last year, except that I bought a chariot, having some hope of seeing you and your husband here. As I shall not write again until I hear where you are, I may as well say now all that occurs to me. On my way through Philadelphia I rode out to Lansdown, to see our beautiful little K. and Mrs. L. They appear to love you with all their hearts.
In no instance I must confess, does it more evidently appear, what confused and uncertain ideas were during that age entertained concerning the English constitution. Such severities were afterwards magnified into the greatest enormities. There are at present near eight hundred. * Lord Lansdown, p. 515. This story is told differently in Hobart's Reports, p. 120.
"Thank you," said Catherine, in some distress, from a doubt of the propriety of accepting such an offer. "I will drive you up Lansdown Hill tomorrow." "Thank you; but will not your horse want rest?" "Rest! He has only come three and twenty miles today; all nonsense; nothing ruins horses so much as rest; nothing knocks them up so soon.
Moore bound to advise a Noble Poet to get as fast as possible out of a certain publication, lest he should not be able to give an account at Holland or at Lansdown House, how his friend Lord B had associated himself with his friend L. H ? Is he afraid that the "Spirit of Monarchy" will eclipse the "Fables for the Holy Alliance" in virulence and plain speaking?
"It don't belong to the dead 'un; he's got two." I glanced into his open palm and beheld two halves of a brown artificial eye, made of glass, and much shot with imitation blood! "No," observed my friend, Inspector Bull, "there's been no body found on Lansdown, and I should have heard of it if there had been without a doubt." The inspector finished a liberal tumbler of Lord St.
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