The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and Tales to the Present Day, Selected for the Reading of Railway Passengers |
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... of his journey was a sure indication of the precise hour of the day . Mr. Hobler quitted the Mansion - house clerkship in 1843. He did not long survive his retirement . LORD BROUGHAM . SOME men's greatness comes unexpectedly on them.
... of his journey was a sure indication of the precise hour of the day . Mr. Hobler quitted the Mansion - house clerkship in 1843. He did not long survive his retirement . LORD BROUGHAM . SOME men's greatness comes unexpectedly on them.
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... hour together , you would say ogh clo as I do now ; and so he marched off . was so confounded with the justice of his retort , that I followed and gave him a shilling , the only one I had . " Once I sat in a coach opposite a Jew ; a ...
... hour together , you would say ogh clo as I do now ; and so he marched off . was so confounded with the justice of his retort , that I followed and gave him a shilling , the only one I had . " Once I sat in a coach opposite a Jew ; a ...
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... hours in a roar of laughter , playing upon the simplicity of a Scotch cousin , who had mistaken the Rev. Sydney Smith for his gallant synonym , the hero of Acre . Curran , when Master of the Rolls , said to Mr. Grattan , " You would be ...
... hours in a roar of laughter , playing upon the simplicity of a Scotch cousin , who had mistaken the Rev. Sydney Smith for his gallant synonym , the hero of Acre . Curran , when Master of the Rolls , said to Mr. Grattan , " You would be ...
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... hours to make the journey . In 1849 , the same journey was made , by a route three miles longer , in one hour and a half ! In the year 1763 there was but one stage- coach between Edinburgh and London . This started once a month from ...
... hours to make the journey . In 1849 , the same journey was made , by a route three miles longer , in one hour and a half ! In the year 1763 there was but one stage- coach between Edinburgh and London . This started once a month from ...
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... hour , in carriages affording no more inconvenience or discom- fort than Mr. Young suffered in 1770 , when reposing in his drawingroom in his arm- chair . Until the close of the last century , the in- ternal transport of goods in ...
... hour , in carriages affording no more inconvenience or discom- fort than Mr. Young suffered in 1770 , when reposing in his drawingroom in his arm- chair . Until the close of the last century , the in- ternal transport of goods in ...
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Page 95 - Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Page 5 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Page 62 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Page 37 - Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Page 2 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
Page 177 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 33 - Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won...
Page 111 - ... of general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived. The number of readers is at present so great that a popular author may subsist in comfort and opulence on the profits of his works. In the reigns of William the Third, of Anne, and of George the First, even...
Page 64 - I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smockfrock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written
Page 150 - Howe's dining-room, where she generally sat and received her company ; and Salt, who believed Howe to be a bachelor, frequently recommended his own wife to him as a suitable match. During the last seven years of this gentleman's absence, he went every Sunday to St. James's church, and used to sit in Mr. Salt's seat, where he had a view of his wife, but could not easily be seen by her. After he returned home...