... playmates, and begin to discover that their father is not the poor man he seems. The Peghler is thunderstruck, some fine morning, at finding his household convulsed by a rebellion, to which the very wife of his bosom is evidently not ill affected,... Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 681832Full view - About this book
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 634 pages
...breakfasts of porridge. The ancient dine-asty of potatoes is tumbled from its throne; and tea, liitherto a thing only enjoyed clandestinely when he was from...vain that he struggles against these innovations. Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, he is brought to submission l'y the very multitude of his enemies.... | |
| William Chambers - 1853 - 370 pages
...wife of his bosom is evidently not ill affected, against further breakfasts of porridge. The ancient dine-asty of potatoes is tumbled from its throne ;...vain that he struggles against these innovations. Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, he is brought to submission by the very multitude of his enemies.... | |
| 1854 - 404 pages
...wife of his bosom is evidently not ill affected, against further breakfasts of porridge. The ancient dine-asty of potatoes is tumbled from its throne;...vain that he struggles against these innovations. Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, he is brought to submission by the very multitude of his enemies.... | |
| Tales - Short stories, English - 1864 - 242 pages
...wife of his bosom is evidently not ill-affected, against further breakfasts of porridge. The ancient dine-asty of potatoes is tumbled from its throne;...vain that he struggles against these innovations. Like Gulliver among the Liliputians, he is brought to submission by the very multitude of his enemies.... | |
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