Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1 epub
Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1 epub
Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1.cCatherine Grace Frances Gore
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Author: Catherine Grace Frances Gore
Number of Pages: 56 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231210475
File Name: Temptation.and.Atonement,.and.Other.Tales.Volume.1.pdf
Download Link: Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...make their appearance at every door. Not a tyro of a clerk but seems to be learning to draw in figures. Saints and sinners unite in bidding their fellow-creatures L.S.D.--d; and, knowing our inability before they ask, and their ignorance in asking, request us, "at our earliest convenience," to settle their small accounts. The world seems bent, in short, upon prolonging by weariness of spirit the brevity of the shortest day of the year! Among mine enemies (at the period when I was beginning to comprehend the identity between an enemy and a creditor) was a certain rich man, who swore he was a very poor one, --Jonas Cox by name, and a tailor by "nature. Yes, by nature; for he was born a tailor, a chip of the old shop-board, a Snip of many generations. There had been as many Coxes in his cabbagery as Guelphs upon the throne of Great Britain. He was Cox VI., of Poland Street; had come into the world cross-legged, and was likely to exhibit his cross-bones in the same sartorial bearings. Jonas Cox, I blush to own, was my family tailor. Though his cut was such as fully to justify my cutting him, in recalling to mind how he had admeasured me for my schoolboy jackets aforetime, and annually wasted upon my crabbed uncle the assurance (so sweet in the ears of parents) that I was "growing a fine young gentleman," when I grew to be merely a fine gentleman, I remembered the days of my youth and Jonas Cox--eschewed Stultz, Burghart, and Buckmaster, Cooke, Inkson, and Curlewis, --and left my measures to the exclusive care of Poland Street, as her Majesty those of Government to the hands of Sir Robert Peel. So long as I could be classed among the good customers of Jonas, I was "dressed," as dinners are promised at suburban taverns, "on t...
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Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1.cCatherine Grace Frances Gore
Author: Catherine Grace Frances Gore
Number of Pages: 56 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231210475
File Name: Temptation.and.Atonement,.and.Other.Tales.Volume.1.pdf
Download Link: Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...make their appearance at every door. Not a tyro of a clerk but seems to be learning to draw in figures. Saints and sinners unite in bidding their fellow-creatures L.S.D.--d; and, knowing our inability before they ask, and their ignorance in asking, request us, "at our earliest convenience," to settle their small accounts. The world seems bent, in short, upon prolonging by weariness of spirit the brevity of the shortest day of the year! Among mine enemies (at the period when I was beginning to comprehend the identity between an enemy and a creditor) was a certain rich man, who swore he was a very poor one, --Jonas Cox by name, and a tailor by "nature. Yes, by nature; for he was born a tailor, a chip of the old shop-board, a Snip of many generations. There had been as many Coxes in his cabbagery as Guelphs upon the throne of Great Britain. He was Cox VI., of Poland Street; had come into the world cross-legged, and was likely to exhibit his cross-bones in the same sartorial bearings. Jonas Cox, I blush to own, was my family tailor. Though his cut was such as fully to justify my cutting him, in recalling to mind how he had admeasured me for my schoolboy jackets aforetime, and annually wasted upon my crabbed uncle the assurance (so sweet in the ears of parents) that I was "growing a fine young gentleman," when I grew to be merely a fine gentleman, I remembered the days of my youth and Jonas Cox--eschewed Stultz, Burghart, and Buckmaster, Cooke, Inkson, and Curlewis, --and left my measures to the exclusive care of Poland Street, as her Majesty those of Government to the hands of Sir Robert Peel. So long as I could be classed among the good customers of Jonas, I was "dressed," as dinners are promised at suburban taverns, "on t...
Read online Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1 Buy Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1 Download Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1 ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Temptation and Atonement, and Other Tales Volume 1