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" There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. "
The New York Journal: An Illustrated Literary Periodical - Page 118
1854
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Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9, Volume 9

1854 - 634 pages
...fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going — none of 'em — ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. And now you know the place." Mr. Harthouse professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed,...
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Hard Times: A Novel

Charles Dickens - 1854 - 302 pages
...Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going — none of 'em — ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold...
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Hard Times for These Times

Charles Dickens - 1854 - 390 pages
...have never been one of the unreasonable ones. You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do !" Mr. Bounderby always represented this to be the sole, immediate, and direct...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 59

1855 - 502 pages
...down Turkey carpets on the floors. Which we 're not going to do. Lastly, as to our hands. There 's not a hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child,...ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle-soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they 're not agoing — none of 'em — ever to be...
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Hard Times

Charles Dickens - 1858 - 492 pages
...a-going to do." " Mr. Bounderby, perfectly right." " Lastly," said Bounderby, " as to our Hands. There 's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child,...on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they 're not a-going— none of 'em — ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon....
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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty, Volume 2

Charles Dickens - 1858 - 490 pages
...fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they 're not a-going — none of 'em — ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. And now you know the place." Mr. Harthouse professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed,...
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Barnaby Rudge (and Hard times).

Charles Dickens - 1858 - 488 pages
...have never been one of the unreasonable ones. You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do ! " Mr. Bounderby always represented this to be the sole, immediate, and direct...
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Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations

Charles Dickens - 1868 - 604 pages
...have never been one of the uureasonable ones. You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do !" Mr. Bounderby always represented this to be the sole, immediate, and direct...
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The Old Curiosity Shop ; Hard Times ; and The Holly Tree Inn

Charles Dickens - 1880 - 868 pages
...have never been one of the unreasonable ones. You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do ! " Mr. Bounderby always represented this to be the sole, immediate, and direct...
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Englische philologie

Johan Storm - 1881 - 492 pages
...bei Americanismen. Dickens, Hard Times 89 : «You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, äs a good many of 'em do !» Ebenso : Priority of Service is had, like a coachand-four, by the man...
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