 | England - 1874
...matters which, it is unnecessary to observe, are even more important to the owners than to the public. What would the gossips of old have given for a book...cause. There are, for example, some awkward blanks of parentage to be found. Very many have no fathers ; at all events, none such as they care to name.... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1880 - 84 pages
...disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. " What would the gossips of old have given for a book...recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . . . This work, however, will serve other purposes besides those of mere curiosity, envy, or malice.... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1879
...Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. " What would the gossips of old have given for a booh which opened to them the recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . . . This worh, however, will serve other purposes besides those of mere curiosity, envy, or malice.... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 1880 - 271 pages
...disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. " What would the gossips of old have given for a book...recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . . . This work, however, will serve other purposes besides those of mere curiosity, envy, or malice.... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Children's stories - 1880 - 206 pages
...which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. [/» the press. " What would the gossips of old have given for a book...recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . This work, koweoert will serve other purposes besides those of mere curiosity t envy, or malice.... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1880
...disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. " What would the gossips of old have given for a book...recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . . . This work, however, will serve other purposes besides mere curiosity, envy, or malice. It is... | |
 | John Hollingshead - Impresarios - 1880 - 191 pages
...disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. " What would the gossips of old ^ have given for a book...recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . . . This work, however, will serve other purposes besides those of mere curiosity , envy, or malice.... | |
 | English literature - 1880
...disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. " What would the gossips of old have given for a book...recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . . . This work, however, will serve other purposes besides mere curiosity, envy, or malice, /t it... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - English drama - 1880 - 309 pages
...which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. [/» the press. " What would the gossips of old have given for a book...recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . . . This work, however, vjilt serve other purposes besides those of mere curiosity, envy, or malice.... | |
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1880
...disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c. " What would the gossips of old have given for a book...recesses of every County Family in the Three Kingdoms ? . . . This mark, however, will serve other purposes besides those of mere curiosity, envy, or malice.... | |
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Education, &c., of more than i2,ooo distinguished Heads of Families in the United Kingdom, their Heirs Apparent or Presumptive, together with a Record of the Patronage at their disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses,... 
