 As we lived near the road, we often had the traveller or stranger visit us to taste our gooseberry wine, for which we had great reputation; and I profess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault with it.  The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale - Page 8by Oliver Goldsmith - 1807 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...too, even to the fortieth revive, all remembered their affinity, without any help from the heralds' office, and came very frequently to see us. Some of them did us no great honor by these claims of kindred ; as we had the blind, the maimed, and the halt amongst the number.... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...tnste our gooseberry wine, for which -we ha 1 great reputation; and I profe-s, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault...it. Our cousins, too, even to the fortieth remove, fill remembered their affinity, without any help from the heralu's oCice, and came very frequently... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1906 - 478 pages
...taste our goose-berry wine, for which we had a great reputation; and I profess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault with it.— Goldsmith. Questions. 1. Which conjunctions connect things of similar rank or importance? 2. Which... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1906 - 472 pages
...our goose-berry wine, for which we had a great reputation ; and I profess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault with it. — • Goldsmith. Questions. 1. Which conjunctions connect things of similar rank or importance? 2.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 262 pages
...taste our gooseberry wine, for which we had great reputation; and I profess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault...even to the fortieth remove, all remembered their affinity,0 without any help from the herald's office,0 and came very frequently to see us. Some of... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 pages
...taste our gooseberry wine, for which we had great reputation; and I profess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault...these claims of kindred; as we had the blind, the halt, and the maimed amongst 52 the number. However, my wife always insisted, that as they were the... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1911 - 444 pages
...taste our gooseberry wine, for which we had great reputation; and I profess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault...frequently to see us. Some of them did us no great honor by these claims of kindred, as we had the blind, the maimed, and the halt amongst the number.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1911 - 236 pages
...taste our gooseberry wine, for which we had great reputation ; and I profess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault...their affinity, without any help from the Herald's Office,1 and came very frequently to see us. Some of them did us no great honor by these claims of... | |
 | Gustav Wendt - 1911 - 352 pages
...2. Poorer householders were frequently unable to pay their hearth money to the day. (Macaulay.) 3. Our cousins, too, even to the fortieth remove, all remembered their affinity. (Goldsmith.) 4. to live to eighty. 5. I do not know to the present moment whether he is aware that... | |
 | Hans Schwarz - 1911 - 166 pages
...taste our goosberry-wine. for which we had great reputation; and I profess with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault with it." * In beiden Fällen wird ferner das häusliche Glück einer rechtschaffenen Familie durch einen jungen... | |
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