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I don't say your friend has disgraced himself; he has not: by George, it takes a good deal for that in his set! But not a soul out of his own family cares two-pence for him." "There are some who are better liked everywhere than at home, and they're not the better sort," said Hester. "That goes for less than nothing. I know the part of him chance acquaintances cannot know.
The Convict's Address to his Unhappy Brethren: Being a Sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Dodd, Friday, June 6, 1777, in the Chapel of Newgate, while under sentence of death, for forging the name of the Earl of Chesterfield on a bond for £4,200. Sold by the booksellers and news-carriers. Price Two-pence. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale from Lichfield on Aug. 9: 'Lucy said, "When I read Dr.
Brandon answered: "I have no quarrel with you, Mr. Davray. Nor have I anything to say to you." "No quarrel? I like that. I'd knock your face in for two-pence, you blasted hypocrite. And I will too. All free ground here." Davray's voice was shrill. He was swaying on his legs. The woman looked up from the fire and watched them.
Such as are in debt, and cannot satisfy their creditors, are turned over by their creditors to the Dutch company, who send them to work among their slaves, having the same allowance of boiled rice with the rest, with two-pence a day towards paying their debts; but they seldom get free till carried out dead.
"A small leak will sink a ship." "At a great penny worth pause awhile." "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire." "Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom." "It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel." "A penny saved is a penny earned." "A penny saved is two-pence clear." "A pin a day is a groat a year."
And after all the pains I have taken with your equine education, to talk in such terms of a little playfulness! I would not give two-pence to ride a horse that goes straight along." June. "I should not call that playful riding to come home with one's hands all blistered from holding the animal in.
All the brandy which I have seen in Boulogne is new, fiery, and still-burnt. This is the trash which the smugglers import into England: they have it for about ten-pence a gallon. Butcher's meat is sold for five sols, or two-pence halfpenny a pound, and the pound here consists of eighteen ounces.
There are large schools, national schools, in this village, and the children over ten years of age, who work in the factory, go to school half time. They are paid at the rate of two-pence halfpenny a day for the work of the other half of the day that is equivalent to five cents.
I again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life. He said, 'You shall have them all for two-pence. I hope you shall know a great deal more of me before you write my Life. He mentioned to me this day many circumstances, which I wrote down when I went home, and have interwoven in the former part of this narrative. On Tuesday, April 13, he and Dr.
Make me also, I beseech you, on this my monument, ships under full sail, and my self in my robes sitting on the bench, with five gold rings on my fingers, and scattering moneys among the common people; for you know I have ordered ye a funeral feast, and two-pence a-piece in money.
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