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the Old Chapel House inn in Oxfordshire, on the Bir- 

 mingham Road, that he gave vent to the profoundity — 

 " there is no place," he said, " at which people can enjoy 

 themselves so well as at a capital tavern like this. Let 

 there be ever so great a plenty of good things, ever so 

 much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much 



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desire that every guest should be easy, in the nature oi 

 things it cannot be. There must always be some degree 

 of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious 

 to entertain his friends ; these in their turn are anxious 

 to be agreeable to him, and no one but a very impudent 

 do£ can as freelv command what is in another man's 



