The Works of Henry Fielding [Paperback]

Henry Fielding (Author)

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Publication Date: August 29, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1459004027 | ISBN-13: 978-1459004023

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: you never pay me a shilling the loss will not ruin me." Adams liked the invitation very well, especially as it was delivered with so hearty an accent. He shook his host by the hand, and thanking him, said, " He would tarry another pot rather for the pleasure of such worthy company than for the liquor ; " adding, " he was glad to find some Christians left in the kingdom, for that he almost began to suspect that he was sojourning in a country inhabited only by Jews and Turks." The kind host produced the liquor, and Joseph with Fanny retired into the garden, where, while they solaced themselves with amorous discourse, Adams sat down with his host; and, both filling their glasses, and lighting their pipes, they began that dialogue which the reader will find in the next chapter. Chapter A dialogue between Mr Abraham Adams and his host, which, by the disagreement in their opinions, seemed to threaten an unlucky catastrophe, had it not been timely prevented by the return of the lovers. IR," said the host, " I assure you you are not the first to whom our squire hath promised more than he hath performed. He is so famous for this practice, that his word will not be taken for much by those who know him. I remember a young fellow whom he promised his parents to make an exciseman. The poor people, who could ill afford it, bred their son to writing and accounts, and other learning to qualify him for the place; and the boy held up his head above his condition with these hopes ; nor would he go to plough, nor to any other kind of work, and went constantly drestas fine as could be, with two clean Holland shirts a week, and this for several years ; till at last he followed the squire up to London, thinking there to mind him of his promises; but he could never get sight of him. So th...

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: General Books LLC (August 29, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1459004027
• ISBN-13: 978-1459004023
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
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