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Most of these young ladies made faces at it, and declared it was "perfectly horrid," with that aspect of veracity peculiar to their age and sex. About this time a movement was made on the part of some of the mansion-house people to leave the supper-table. Miss Jane Trecothick had quietly hinted to her mother that she had had enough of it.
Most of these young ladies made faces at it, and declared it was "perfectly horrid," with that aspect of veracity peculiar to their age and sex. About this time a movement was made on the part of some of the mansion-house people to leave the supper-table. Miss Jane Trecothick had quietly hinted to her mother that she had had enough of it.
When the laugh rose around Roxy and her saucy beau, several looked in that direction with an anxious expression, as if something had happened, a lady fainted, for instance, or a couple of lively fellows come to high words. "Young folks will be young folks," said Deacon Soper. "No harm done. Least said soonest mended." "Have some of these shell-oysters?" said the Colonel to Mrs. Trecothick.
Rigby replied, that he was obliged to his worthy friend for teaching him Latin, and would take the first opportunity to return the favour by teaching him English. Southey's Cowper, iii. 317. Lord Chatham, in the House of Lords, said of Trecothick: 'I do not know in office a more upright magistrate, nor in private life a worthier man. Parl. Hist. xvi. 1101. See post, Sept. 23, 1777.
When the laugh rose around Roxy and her saucy beau, several looked in that direction with an anxious expression, as if something had happened, a lady fainted, for instance, or a couple of lively fellows come to high words. "Young folks will be young folks," said Deacon Soper. "No harm done. Least said soonest mended." "Have some of these shell-oysters?" said the Colonel to Mrs. Trecothick.
Wilkes, he asked, 'Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English ? That Trecothick could both speak and write good English is well known. I myself was favoured with his correspondence concerning the brave Corsicans.
We should have no hesitation to give it for John Dryden, in preference to Elkanah Settle, from the names only, without knowing their different merits . JOHNSON. 'I suppose, Sir, Settle did as well for Aldermen in his time, as John Home could do now. Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English ? Mr.
Now night descending the proud scene was o'er, But lived in Settle's numbers one day more. In the third book the ghost of Settle acts the part of guide in the Elysian shade. Johnson implies, no doubt, that they were both Americans by birth. Trecothick was in the American trade, but he was not an American. Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George III, iii. 184, note.
Hence the litigation of which he complains, and the famous Chancery suit of 'Trecothick v. Lyndon, in which Mr. I also in this year made arrangements for purchasing the Polwellan estate and mines in Cornwall from Sir John Trecothick, for L70,000 an imprudent bargain, which was afterwards the cause to me of much dispute and litigation.
Most of these young ladies made faces at it, and declared it was "perfectly horrid," with that aspect of veracity peculiar to their age and sex. About this time a movement was made on the part of some of the mansion-house people to leave the supper-table. Miss Jane Trecothick had quietly hinted to her mother that she had had enough of it.
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