| Edmund Burke - History - 1801 - 762 pages
...roisfcfune, we fell into the hand; of 2 factor who fat for the picture i have drawn of one in my Tale cf Two Dogs. My father was advanced in life when he married: I was the eldeft of (even children; was and he, -worn out by early hardfliips, was unfit for labour. MT father's Ipirit... | |
| English literature - 1800 - 532 pages
...misfortune, we fell into the hands of a factor who fat for the piiture I have drawn of one in my l'aie of Two Dogs. My father was advanced in life when he married...eldeft of feven children ; and he, worn out by early hardlhips, was unfit for labour. My father's fpirit was foon irritated, but not eafily broken. There... | |
| English poetry - 1801 - 860 pages
...we fell into the hands of a fscbr, who fat for the picture J have drawn of one in my -7 ah of Tvaa Dogs. My father was advanced in life when he married ; I was the eldcft of (even children, and he, worn out by early hardfhips, was unfit for labour. My father's fpirit... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 820 pages
...bargain ; and to clench the misfortune, we fell into the hands of a faftor, who fat for the pifture I have drawn of one in my tale of Twa Dogs. My father...eldeft of feven children, and he, worn out by early hardihips, was unfit for labour. My father's fpirit was foon irritated, but not eafily broken. There... | |
| British prose literature - 1819 - 364 pages
...fell into the hands of a factor, who sat for the picture I have drawn of one in my Tale, of Twa Dnifs. My father was advanced in life when he married ; I was the eldest of seven children : and he, worn out by early hardships, was unfit for labour. My father's spirit... | |
| 1824 - 312 pages
...misfortune, we fell into the hands of a factor, who sat for the picture I have drawn of one in my Tale of the Twa Dogs. My father was advanced in life when he married ; I was the eldest of seven children, and he, worn out by early hardships, was unfit for labour. My father's spirit... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...Moore, without feeling his heart overflow with tenderness, and his spirit burn with indignation ! " My father was advanced in life when he married; I was the eldest of seven children ; and he, worn out by early hardships, was unfit for labour. My father's spirit... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Education - 1830 - 452 pages
...a subsistence without running in debt. " The farm," says his son, " proved a ruinous bargain. . . . My father was advanced in life when he married : I was the eldest of seven children ; and he, worn out by early hardships, was unfit for labour. My father's spirit... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...a subsistence without running in debt. " The farm," says his son, " proved a ruinous bargain. . . . My father was advanced in life when he married: I was the eldest of seven children ; and he, worn out by early hardships, was unfit for labour. My father's spirit... | |
| Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...fell into the hands of a factor, who sat for the picture I have drawn of one in my Tale of Two. Dogi. My father was advanced in life when he married ; I was the eldest of seven children ; and he worn out by early hardships, was unfit for labour. My father's spirit... | |
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