 | England - 1820 - 876 pages
...source of deeper interest and greater emolument, which he seldom has virtue enough to leave unexplored. He is the centre of the mystery of rustic iniquity,...fabricator of false leases and surreptitious deeds arid conveyances. Possessed of important secrets and of useful acquirements, he is courted and caressed... | |
 | England - 1820 - 730 pages
...source of deeper interest and greater emolument, which he seldom has virtue enough to leave unexplored. He is the centre of the mystery of rustic iniquity,...neighbourhood, and furnished with his little book of precedente, the fabricator of false leases and surreptitious deeds and conveyances. Possessed of important... | |
 | 1932 - 436 pages
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 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1822 - 636 pages
...of deeper interest and greater emolument, which he seldom has virtue enough to leave unexplored — he is the centre of the mystery of rustic iniquity,...conveyances. Possessed of important secrets and of useful information, he is courted and caressed; a cordial reception and the usual allowance of whiskey greets... | |
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... the scribe, as well as the chronicler and the pedagogue of his little circle ; he writes their letters, and derives from this no small degree of influence and profit, but he has open to him another source of deeper interest and greater emolument,... 