 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing'.' He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing1.' He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing How Johnson employed himself upon his first coming to London is not particularly known. A curious anecdote... | |
 | 1821 - 372 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing How Johnson employed himself upon his first coming to London is not particularly known. A curious anecdote... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors ; a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...porter's knot." He however added, " Wilcox was one of my best friends." penny; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 pages
...porter's knot." He however added, " Wilcox •was one of my best friends." penny; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 910 pages
...a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny, so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." But, amidst this cold obscurity, there was one brilliant circumstance to cheer him, his acquaintance... | |
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Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one another's names. It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine ; but I had a cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny;... 
