 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
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...faithful old butler at the hall, who says, " 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 children ; for you know, sir," the honest fellow adds, " my good master was always the poor man's friend." Hopes... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...faithful old butler at the hall, who says, " 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 children ; for you know, sir," the honest fellow adds, "my good master was always the poor man's friend." Hopes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 pages
...melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor ser vants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did 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 children,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1871 - 626 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... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 388 pages
...letter from his butler to the Spectator, written, of course, by Addison. " I am afraid/' he says, " he caught his death the last county-sessions, where...wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's friend." And then he complained that he had lost " his... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 352 pages
...letter from his butler to the Spectator, written, of course, by Addison : " I am afraid," he says, " he caught his death the last countysessions, where...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." And then... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 366 pages
...letter from his butler to the Spectator, written, of course, by Addison : " I am afraid," he says, " he caught his death the last countysessions, where...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." And then... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...letter from his butler to the Spectator, written, of course, by Addison: "I am afraid," he says, " he caught his death the last countysessions, where...her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighboring gentleman; for you know, sir, my good master was always tho poor man's friend." And then... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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...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 children,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1872 - 374 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... | |
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