 Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid...  The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Page 2by Joseph Addison - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Barrett Wendell - English language - 1891 - 334 pages
...silence, I shall give my reader a copy of his letter, without any alteration or diminution: — "' HONOURED SIR, — Knowing that you was my old master's...poor widow woman and her fatherless children, that bad been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman; for you know, Sir, my good master was always the poor... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - English language - 1891 - 342 pages
...that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of hia death, which has afflicted the whole county as well...wronged by a neighbouring gentleman; for you know, Sir, my good master was always the poor man's friend.' " The contrast between the polite style of the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 464 pages
...could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may...wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, Sir, my good master was always the poor man's friend. Upon his coming home, the first complaint he... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1892 - 100 pages
...could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may...wronged by a neighbouring gentleman; for you know, sir, -my good master was always the poor man's friend. Upon his coming home, the first complaint he... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 364 pages
...could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may...her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighboring gentleman; for you know, Sir, my good master was always the poor man's friend. Upon his... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - English essays - 1892 - 168 pages
...could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may...where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow 1 Dryden's translation : — woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighboring... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - English essays - 1892 - 164 pages
...news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved hjm, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid...where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow 1 Dryden's translation : — " Mirror of ancient faith ! Undaunted worth ! Inviolable truth ! " woman,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1892 - 252 pages
...not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his 20 death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants who loved him, I may...our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last country sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1893 - 212 pages
...not forbear sending you the melan'choly News of his Death, which has afflicted the 'whole Country, as well as his poor Servants, who 'loved him, I may...our Lives. 'I am afraid he caught his Death the last County 'Sessions, where he would go to see Justice done to a 'poor Widow Woman, and her Fatherless... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of Jus death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may...her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighboring gentleman ; for you know, Sir, my good master was always the poor man's friend. Upon his... | |
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