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Mervyn's car breaks down - before he goes to a nearby cottage for help he takes a drink. He did not know it was a sleeping draught. Gaining access to
the cottage he passes out onto a bed. A bed containing Jane who has also taken a sleeping draught. In the morning Jane's husband arrives and finding
them both in bed jumps to the wrong conclusion
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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Principles of the Usury Laws: With Disquisitions on the Arguments Adduced Against Them by Mr. Bentham and Other Writers, and a Review of the Authorities in Their FavorThe history of Legislation, as it respects usury, is of the same kind as in those instances to which we have referred. At first it was a deadly sin to receive any sort of interest for the loan 'of money: Then it' was permitted to an enormous extent'...
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Principles of the Usury Laws: With Disquisitions on the Arguments Adduced Against Them, and a Review of the Authorities in Their FavorThe history of Legislation, as it respects usury, is of the same kind as in those instances to which we have referred. At first it was a deadly sin to receive any sort of interest for the loan of money. Then it was permitted to an enormous extent Afterwards it was reduced to a reas...
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Principles of the Usury Laws: With Disquisitions on the Arguments Adduced Against Them, and a Review of the Authorities in Their FavorThe history of Legislation, as it respects usury, is of the same kind as in those instances to which we have referred. At first it was a deadly sin to receive any sort of interest for the loan of money. Then it was permitted to an enormous extent Afterwards it was reduced to a reas...
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Attorneys, Solicitors, and Agents: With Notes and DisquisitionsSir William Blackstone devotes but little more than a page to the subject, and his learned Annotator gives it only a few lines.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of...
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Attorneys, Solicitors, and Agents: With Notes and DisquisitionsSir William Blackstone devotes but little more than a page to the subject, and his learned Annotator gives it only a few lines.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of...
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Laws of Literary Property: Comprising the Statutes and Cases Relating to Books, Manuscripts, Lectures, Dramatic and Musical Compositions, Engravings, Sculpture, Maps, & C. , Including the Piracy and Transfer of Copyright, With a Historical View, and Disquisitions of the Principles An
Published BY longman, rees, orme, brown, and green, paternoster Row, henry dixon, 19, carey street, lincoln's inn, adam black, edi...
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Laws of Literary Property: Comprising the Statutes and Cases Relating to Books, Manuscripts, Lectures, Dramatic and Musical Compositions, Engravings, Sculpture, Maps, & C. , Including the Piracy and Transfer of Copyright, With a Historical View, and Disquisitions of the Principles An
Published BY longman, rees, orme, brown, and green, paternoster Row, henry dixon, 19, carey street, lincoln's inn, adam black, edi...
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Principles of the Usury Laws: With Disquisitions on the Arguments Adduced Against Them by Mr. Bentham and Other Writers, and a Review of the Authorities in Their FavorThe history of Legislation, as it respects usury, is of the same kind as in those instances to which we have referred. At first it was a deadly sin to receive any sort of interest for the loan 'of money: Then it' was permitted to an enormous extent'...
One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham's reputation as a literary masterThe Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by po...
Maugham's enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction "The Magician" is one of Somerset Maugham's most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de si?cle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves?until the sinister and repulsive Oliv...
