 ... on the amount of good things which those with whom he lives will think he ought to consume. A man with a family living on £400 a year cannot entertain his friends very often either in London or in Pietermaritzburg; but of the two, hospitality is...  South Africa - Page 287de Anthony Trollope - 1878 - 4 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1902 - 514 pages
...London or in Pietermaritzburg ; but of the two, hospitality is more within the reach of the latter. And I do not hesitate to say that a gentleman living with...inconveniences of poverty in Natal than in England." So Anthony Trollope ; and I add this note of recent experience that such a man finds living there if... | |
 | Royal Commonwealth Society - 1902 - 574 pages
...London or in Pietermaritzburg; but of the two, hospitality is more within the reach of the latter. And I do not hesitate to say that a gentleman living with...inconveniences of poverty in Natal than in England." So Anthony Trollope; and I add this note of recent experience that such a man finds living there if... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - 1902 - 514 pages
...London or in Pietermaritzburg ; but of the two, hospitality is more within the reach of the latter. And I do not hesitate to say that a gentleman living with...inconveniences of poverty in Natal than in England." So Anthony Trollope ; and I add this note of recent experience that such a man finds living there if... | |
 | 1896 - 926 pages
...London or in Pietermaritzburg; but of the two, hospitality is more within the reach of the latter. I do not hesitate to say that a gentleman living with...inconveniences of poverty in Natal than in England. If these views were true then (and I think they were, for Trollope wrote with singular discrimination... | |
 | Royal Commonwealth Society - 1902 - 512 pages
...London or in Pietermaritzburg ; but of the two, hospitality is more within the reach of the latter. And I do not hesitate to say that a gentleman living with...wife and children on any income between £400 and j£l,000 would feel less of the inconveniences of poverty in Natal than in England." So Anthony Trollope... | |
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