 | William Matthews - 1832 - 464 pages
...tobacco-pipes, pots, pans, and gun-barrels, with raw smoke, but could not illuminate rooms, — WHOSE delicate hands and noses would have shrunk with horror...of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment. It is this persevering spirit and constant labour, during the last five years, which has put me in... | |
 | John Hollingshead - 1862 - 272 pages
...being suffocated, and often refused to assist me, until I shamed them by the example of etrippingto perform what they thought was too dirty work for them....of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment." Mr. Winsor, with all his pretence of mechanical completeness, never contemplated the erection of a... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1862 - 632 pages
...the most abject labours to teach liis ministers and generals how to civilise a barbarous nation, 1 did no longer deem it beneath me (who had been a merchant...of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment." Mr. Winsor, with all his pretence of mechanical completeness, never contemplated the erection of a... | |
 | Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1865 - 488 pages
...magniloquent strain : — " Animated by the life and example of Peter the Great, emperor of all the Bussias, who performed the most abject labours to teach his...of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment." Notwithstanding these high pretensions, it does not appear that Mr. Winsor ever thought of a plan for... | |
 | 1865 - 786 pages
...magniloquent strain: — "Animated by the life and example of Peter the Groat, Emperor of all the llussias, who performed the most abject labours to teach his...barbarous nation, I did no longer deem it beneath me (who hud been a merchant in the city of London) to do that work which some of my labourers, actually in... | |
 | Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1870 - 288 pages
...thought was too dirty work for them." And he continues in the following magniloquent strain : — " Animated by the life and example of Peter the Great,...of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment." Notwithstanding these high pretensions, it does not appear that Mr. Winsor ever thought of a plan for... | |
 | John Hollingshead - 1874 - 368 pages
...retorts, tobacco-pipes, pots, pans, and gun-barrels, with raw smoke, but could not illuminate — WHOSE delicate hands and noses would have shrunk with horror...the City of London) to do that work which some of ray labourers, actually in want of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment.' Mr Winsor, with... | |
 | John Hollingshead - 1874 - 384 pages
...perform what they thought was too dirty work for them. ' Animated by the life and example of Peter tJre Great, emperor of all the Russias, who performed the...of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment.' Mr Winsor, with all his pretence of mechanical completeness, never contemplated the erection of a gas-holder,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 pages
...Russias, who performed the most abject labours to teach his ministers and generals how to civilise a barbarous nation, I did no longer deem it beneath...of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment. It is this persevering spirit and constant labour, during the last five years, which has put me in... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 pages
...life and example of Peter the Great, Emperor of all the Russias, who performed the most abject labors to teach his ministers and generals how to civilize...the City of London) to do that work which some of my laborers, actually in want of bread, refused to do for victuals and payment. It is this persevering... | |
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WHOSE delicate hands and noses would have shrunk with horror from my numerous dirty and laborious experiments in kitchens, and wash-houses, where my own labourers complained of being suffocated, and often refused to assist me, until I shamed them by the... 
