… of business was to detail ‘The Manner of walking the Streets and other Publick Places’; and how to greet the friends and acquaintances, ‘low fellows’ and the beggars you met on the pavement. Jones included a long list of phrases to be …
… British; and I hope, my Lord, it is not too much to infer, that they owe that “doubly blessed” quality to their early acquaintance with the Ring, the principle of which is not to strike an opponent when he is down.’ Pierce Egan, Boxiana, …