 | 1813 - 662 pages
...myself," added he, " we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited on us a penny a piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded...her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise !" ' But, in spite of his strong inclination to the law, the singular adaptedness of his powers for... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...to add ; "we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited upon us, a penny a piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded...with a half-penny, and sometimes with a promise." It appears, that his father never sanctioned his partiality to the bar, and he was now reluctantly obliged... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Lawyers - 1830 - 554 pages
...added he, ' we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited upon us a penny a piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded...her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise.' " t * Life of Johnson, vol.iv. p.365. 3d ed. t Stephens' Life of Tooke, vol. ip 31. On being called... | |
 | Women - 1830 - 400 pages
...generous, for we gave the girl who waited upon us a penny a piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew die value of money, sometimes rewarded her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise.' " Tiirkith Amufcmcntt. " The dinner (as is always the case among the Turks) was despatched with great... | |
 | John Foster - English essays - 1844 - 550 pages
...myself,' added he, ' we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited on us a penny apiece; but Kenyon, who always knew the v,alue of money, sometimes rewarded...her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise !'" But in spite of his strong inclination to the law, the singular adaptedness of his powers for the... | |
 | John Foster - Essays - 1844 - 432 pages
...myself,' added he,' we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited on us a penny a-piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded...her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise !' " But in spite of his strong inclination to the law, the singular adaptedness of his powers for... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 pages
...his defender ; and many years afterwards (1794), on a similar occasion, Lord Kenyon for his judge. knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise." For some time after his call to the bar, which is recorded as having taken place on the 2nd of July,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...Tooke, " were generous ; for we gnvc the girl who waited upon us a penny apiece ; but Kenyon, wboalways knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded her with a halfpenny , and sometimes with a promise." Another curious example may be read in a familiar letter of the poet Cowper. who writes, " I did actually... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Law - 1868 - 208 pages
...Tooke would say, " we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited a penny a piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded...her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise." LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S POWER OF SARCASM. LORD ELLENBOROUGH had no mean power of ridicule — as playful... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 422 pages
...myself,' added he, ' we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited on us a penny a piece ; but Kenyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded...her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise.' " l This state of affairs could, however, have lasted no very long time, when, 1 Stephens's ' Memoirs... | |
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Dunning and myself," added he, " we were generous, for we gave the girl who waited on us a penny a piece; but Kcnyon, who always knew the value of money, sometimes rewarded her with a halfpenny, and sometimes with a promise! 
