 | 1808 - 532 pages
...Market, who told me a parcel was left there for me, but what it was he knew not. I opened it, and bohold there was a pair of leather breeches with a note in them ! the fubftance of which was, to the beft of my remembrance, as follows. " « SIR, — I have fent you a... | |
 | Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1808 - 392 pages
...discovered, and their heels made bare. Jer. xiii. 22. " I often made very free in my prayers with my valuable master for this favour, but he still kept me so amazingly...was a pair of leather breeches with a note in them 1 the substance of which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows : " ' SIR, '"I have sent you... | |
 | Robert Southey - England - 1808 - 274 pages
...to bespeak them as I rode through the town. However, when I passed the shop I forgot it; but when 1 came to London I called on Mr. Croucher, a shoemaker...which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows: " Sin,—I have sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they will fit. I beg your acceptance •of them;... | |
 | Robert Southey - Authors, English - 1808 - 410 pages
...the shop I forgot it ; but when I came to London I called on Mr. Croucher, a shoemaker in Shepherd'* Market, who told me a parcel was left there for me,...which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows .. «« « SIB, •"I have sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they will fit. I beg your acceptance... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 pages
...Baal : for which iniquity was their skirts discovered, and their heels made bare, Jer. xiii. 22. I often made very free in my prayers with my invaluable...which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows : I have sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they will fit. I beg your acceptance of them ; and,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1814 - 394 pages
...town. However, when I passed the shop I forgot it; but when I came to London I called on Mr Croncher, a shoemaker in Shepherd's Market, who told me a parcel...which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows : " * SIR, "' 1 have sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they will fit. I beg your acceptance of... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...London that day, and called on Mr Croucher, a shoemaker ; he told me a parcel was left there for me. I opened it, and behold there was a pair of leather breeches !" A letter accompanied this preternatural gift, mentioning that if any alteration was required, it... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...this favour; bul he still kept me so amazingly poor that I could not get them at any rate. At last 1 was determined to go to a friend of mine at Kingston,...which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows: " Sir,— I have sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they will fit. I beg your acceptance of them... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...London, fully determined to bespeak them, us I rode through the town. However, when I passed the shop 1 forgot it ; but when I came to London I called on...which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows : '' Sir, — 1 have sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they will fit. I beg your acceptance of... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...Croucher, n shoemaker in Shepherd's Market, who told me a parcel was left there for me, but what it was be knew not. I opened it, and behold there was a pair...which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows : " Sir, — I have sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they will fit. I beg your acceptance of them... | |
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Kingston, who is of that branch of business, to bespeak a pair; and to get him to trust me until my Master sent me money to pay him. I was that day going to London, fully determined to bespeak them, as I rode through the town. However, when I passed the... 
