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It's in the first sentence of Tom Jones, Axiak. I thought you knew that.

An author ought to consider himself not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary at which all persons are welcome for their money.

YCNews is sort of a public ordinary if you stretch things a bit.



The dictionary doesn't seem to have that sense of the word "ordinary". By context in web results it seems to mean "tavern".


I'd never heard of that meaning either, but it's there.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ordinary

14. obsolete ( Brit ) a. a meal provided regularly at a fixed price b. the inn providing such meals


and here: http://www.wordnik.com/words/impecunious/


True. I did say you had to stretch things a bit. I was suggesting YC News as Paul's tavern. A public gathering place.




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