 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 Seiten
...only one servant, a heavy storm coining on obliged him to take shelter at a farm-house. The master was a clergyman, who, to a poor curacy, added the...few scholars in the neighbourhood ; which, in all, made his living about £80 a-year ; and this was all he had to maintain a wife and six children. When... | |
 | Willard Fiske, Paul Charles Morphy - 1860 - 408 Seiten
...he was obliged, by a very heavy shower, to stop at a farm-house in the way. The master of the house was a clergyman, who to a poor curacy, added the care of a few scholars in the neighborhood ; which in all might make his living about eighty pounds a year ; this was all he had... | |
 | 1796 - 504 Seiten
..."'he miller of the houfe was a clergyman, who, to a poor curaoy, added the care of a few fcholar« i» the neighbourhood, which, in all, might make his living about eighty pounds a year. Тг.Ъ was all he nad to maintain -j. wife and fix children. V/htn the duke alighted, the clergyman,... | |
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... was all he had to maintain a wife and six children. When the duke alighted, the clergyman, not knowing his rank, begged him to come in and dry himself; which the other accepted, by borrowing a pair of old worsted stockings and slippers, and warming... 
