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" ... a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life : but that was not my chance ; one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God, I enjoy good... "
Latter Struggles in the Journey of Life: Or, The Afternoon of My Days ... - Page 19
by George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 408 pages
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The citizen of the world; or, Letters from a Chinese philosopher ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 338 pages
...entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life : but that was not my chance ; one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God, I enjoy good health ; and have no enemy in this world, that I know of, but...
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Satirical,humourous & Familiar Pieces: Prose [No] 1-[2?].

1795 - 94 pages
...entitled to cloathing and maintenance during the rest of my life, but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another ,vfith a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God, I enjoy good health, and will for ever love liberty...
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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...entitled to cloathing aud maintenance Duping the rest of ray life; but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However , blessed be God , I enjoy good health , and will for ever love liberty and Old England. Liberty...
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Select British Classics, Volume 2

English literature - 1804 - 242 pages
...clothing and maintenance during the rest of my " life, but that was not my chance ; one man was " born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another ". with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God, " I enjoy good health, and have no enemy in thiĀ« " world that I know of,...
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A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical Beauties for Young Ladies, Intended ...

Mrs. Pilkington (Mary) - Women - 1804 - 276 pages
...been entitled to cloathing and maintenance all the rest of my life; but that was not my chance. One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed bo God I enjoy good health, and will for ever liberty and Old England ! Liberty, perty,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 522 pages
...to ' cloathing and maintenance during the rest of my 'life*, ' life, but that was not my chance; one man is born ' with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with ' a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God, I en'joy v good health, and have no enemy in this world * that ( know of,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 462 pages
...been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life, but that was not my chance ; one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God, I enjoy good health, and have no enemy in this world that I know of, but the...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 12

1823 - 496 pages
...to strife. For all that he has endured, our mariner has only been made a gunner s mate ; but " one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle." Poor Bill was not a spoon-hill, tie was brought up to the sea; for lue was born on hoard the ship,...
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Campbell; Or, The Scottish Probationer. A Novel

Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 pages
...success, and attempted to disguise my own feelings, by quoting Goldsmith's observation, that " one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle '" " Nay," said he, " Will, you are wrong : rather say, " There is a tide in the affairs of men, That,...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life ! but that was not my chance. One man's born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden laddie. However, I enjoy good health, and will for ever love liberty and Old England. Liberty, property,...
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