| SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 páginas
...of the courtiers and domeilics, and had many fquabbles with the King's gi.gantic porter*. At laft, being provoked by Mr. Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge enfued ; and Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a fquirt, the little creature was... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1787 - 554 páginas
...the courtiers and do•meftics, and had many fquabbles with the king's gigantic porter J : at lait being provoked by Mr. Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge enfued ; and Mr. Grofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a fquirt, the littte creature was... | |
| Eccentric biography - 1801 - 352 páginas
...of the courtiers and domestics, and had many squabbles with the queen's gigantic porter. At length being provoked by Mr. Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge ensued, and Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed with a squirt, the little creature was so enraged that a... | |
| 1805 - 556 páginas
...had borne with little temper the teuzing of the courtiers and domestics, and had many squabbles >vith the king's gigantic porter:! at last being provoked...young gentleman -of family, a challenge ensued ; and Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a squirt, the little creature was so enraged, that... | |
| 1805 - 596 páginas
...; his temper was by no means calculated to put up with repeated affronts, and at last being greyly provoked by Mr. Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge ensued ; and Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a squirt, the little creature was so enraged, that... | |
| G. H. Wilson - 1807 - 442 páginas
...; his temper was by no means calculated to put up with repeated affronts, and at last being greatly provoked by Mr. Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge ensued. Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a squirt, the little creature was so enraged, that... | |
| James Caulfield - 1813 - 174 páginas
...the Lord Minimus (commonly called little Jeffery), her majesty's servant, &c. written by Microphilus, with a little print of Jeffery prefixed. Before this...had many squabbles with the king's gigantic porter .f.. * It was in 1630. Besides the present he was bringing for the queen, he lost to the value of two... | |
| James Hardie - 1819 - 356 páginas
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| 1819 - 290 páginas
...court, where he had many squabbles with the courtien on his sea-expedition : at length, being very far provoked by Mr. Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge ensued, when the latter met him with a squirt. This procedure so exasperated Jeffry, that a real duel succeeded... | |
| 1823 - 896 páginas
...made of consequence, grew to think himself really so. He had borne with liltle temper the teasing of the courtiers and domestics, and had many squabbles...young gentleman of family, a challenge ensued ; and Mr Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed only with a squirt, the little creature was so enraged, that... | |
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