 | 1906 - 810 pages
...surest plan to make a man Is, think him so, — LOWELL, Biglow Papers, II, ii, Jonathan to John, st, 9 Income, — Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery, DICKENS, David Copperfield, I, xii Indebted, — And stand indebted, over and above,... | |
 | Katharine Burrill - 1906 - 240 pages
...all remember and all forget — " Annual income, twenty pounds ; annual expenditure, nineteen pounds nineteen six: result — Happiness. Annual income,...pounds; annual expenditure, twenty pounds ought and six : result—Misery." Micawber should have known, for no one suffered more than he did from the sixpence... | |
 | 1906 - 868 pages
...between the right and wrong kind of balance. As that eminent financial expert, Mr. Micawber, puts it, 'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty poiinds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. ' "The present-day problem... | |
 | 1907 - 1012 pages
..."Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, " nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence; result, "happiness. Annual income, twenty pounds; annual "expenditure, twenty pounds ought and six; result, ''misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, "and, in short, you are for ever floored."... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1909 - 236 pages
...was grave for a minute or so. " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary... | |
 | 1916 - 756 pages
...between the right and wrong kind of balance. As that eminent financial expert, Mr. Micawber, puts it, ' Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.' The present-day problem has therefore three sides, being concerned with shortage of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1910 - 868 pages
...so. 164 David Copperfield " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, " you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1911 - 668 pages
...was grave for a minute or so. " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1911 - 602 pages
...was grave for a minute or so. "My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds 10 ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1912 - 258 pages
...Dorrit, bk. ii, ch. viii. Money " My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen...pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." — David Copperfield, ch. xii. My first decided experience of the stupendous power... | |
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. 
